The commission has been forced, due to budgetary constraints, to sharply reduce the scope of ocean surveys that help assess ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Biologists don't know why halibut are struggling. Now the commission that sets catch limits for the fish is charting a path ahead.

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Trinidad, California sits like a perfect jewel on the northern coast, about 25 miles north of Eureka in Humboldt County, offering a vision of California that feels like a secret handshake among ...

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

The region is seeing a boom in fossil fuels just as the impacts of the climate crisis really bite. It’s raising thorny ...

TODAY, WE HAVE PART FIVE in a seven-part series looking at sea level rise in California. From the San Diego / Tijuana Border ...

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...