In Puerto Rico and other hard-hit places, marine researchers are trying to restore reefs and make corals more resilient — with some recent success.

A new generation of expedition cruise ships are bringing a completely reimagined style of cruising to the Mediterranean.

Scientists have moved about 300 endangered sea corals from Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration.

In 2007, whalers in Alaska killed a whale that had a Victorian-era explosive harpoon embedded in its neck. Here are the ...

Penati, Beatrice 2020. Imperial desert dreams: cotton growing and irrigation in Central Asia, 1860–1991. Central Asian Survey, Vol. 39, Issue. 1, p. 161.

Pollution, climate change and its overuse are threatening the existence of one of the most unique stretches of water in the ...

The health of the Great Salt Lake is directly tied to that of the millions of people who live near it, but our leaders are ...

Here is the famous Steppe, the dry grass-land, the never-ending plain stretching across Eurasia from China to Hungary. Rainfall is too limited for trees to grow. The climate is harsh, with hot ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three ...

There is now desert where much of the world’s fourth-largest lake used to be, and the economic, health, and environmental ...

Forget the seaside, there’s one body of water on Earth that doesn’t touch a single coastline. The region, located in the North Atlantic Ocean is called the Sargasso Sea and it’s characterised by its ...