Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.

At least six wildfires are actively burning across New Jersey as gusty winds, dry brush and low humidity provide fueling conditions for fire activity. New York City, Connecticut, Long Island ...

according to a post by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service on Facebook. Around 5,000 residents were forced to evacuate their homes, and the fire threatened over a thousand structures, but ...

When Japan discovered a new island in ... coast guard used paper maps to sum all masses with a circumference of at least 328 feet; however, many of the smaller islands were mistakenly lumped ...

Snyder’s authoritative Story of New Jersey’s Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968, and an article by historian Thomas P. Farmer, “Best Laid Plans for Island Beach ... chairs were set out, along ...

What would Lake Como's shoreline look like under three feet of water? What will the Manasquan Inlet Coast Guard station look like in the future with sea level rise? Maps from the National Oceanic ...

In the age of GPS and Google Maps ... They were first reported in 1529 by Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron, in the Western Pacific, not far from New Guinea. He described 10 low-lying islands or atolls ...

A massive wildfire in New ... the flames were extinguished. He was taken into custody Wednesday and remains in the Ocean County jail awaiting a detention hearing, the New Jersey Forest Fire ...