All those centuries of wishing that Europeans had never come to Turtle Island may well be rendered moot—at least, in a couple of million years...

Antarctic ice, long thought to be disappearing more slowly than that of the Arctic or even growing slightly, has been sneakily melting from underneath, a new study shows...

Ocean-surface temperatures from Maine to North Carolina have shot to their highest in 150 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on April 25...

Raising the alarm about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Center for Biological Diversity has called for it to be named a U.S...

Half the coral has disappeared from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef over the past 27 years, much of it due to factors influenced by human activity, according to scientists at the Au...

Tail wagging enthusiastically, this puppy is clearly enamored of a new playmate. Or is it a toy?...

We hear a lot about what carbon emissions do to the atmosphere; what's less well known is that carbon pollution affects the planet's water as well...