Beneath a cloak of darkness, illuminated only by glow sticks and red-filtered flashlights, researchers waited underwater off ...

Drought and long, hot summer days are sucking Western Colorado's rivers dry, parching farm fields and fueling the massive ...

A new initiative recently launched in Chicago is striving to predict urban flooding. Verizon, in conjunction with Chicago's ...

A series of more than 100 earthquakes has hit Northern California, shaking up the Geysers geothermal steam field in Sonoma ...

More than half of the 7.5 million bales of cotton produced annually in the U.S. will be used in clothing manufacturing. The ...

Heat waves are becoming more common, severe and long-lasting. These prolonged periods of hot weather are especially dangerous ...

Strips of bare land scar the lush and green mountainsides towering above Mutsamudu, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of ...

The vast majority of coffee grown around the world consists of only two species: arabica (Coffea arabica) and robusta (Coffea canephora). The dependence on only these two species of coffee is proving ...

Dr. Jake Johnson, cardiology resident at North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, is the author of a ...

Offshore Hurricane Erin was downgraded to a Category 3 storm early Sunday, as rain lashed Caribbean islands and weather ...

In San Francisco Bay, salt ponds created more than a century ago are reverting to marshland. Along the New York and New ...

Progress toward a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution stalled and went into reverse this week. The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland ...