Scientists, government officials, companies, and environmentalists are gathering at the third United Nations Ocean Conference beginning June 9 in Nice, France, following World Oceans Day, which was ...

According to a law passed in 1990, every four years the federal government is required to issue the National Climate Assessment on the effects of global warming on the U.S. Now, the Trump ...

The U.S. has never ratified that treaty; however, in 1980, Congress enacted legislation to regulate seabed mining. Past administrations have followed the Seabed Authority under what is referred to as ...

It was learned last week that the Trump administration plans to close an office in Hawai’i that helps measure climate change. Scientists at the Global Monitoring Laboratory in Hilo gather daily ...

At the end of last week, firefighters were making progress to contain the largest wildfires burning in Southern California as winds were calmer, but the forecast this week is for more Santa Ana winds ...

In just hours, a storm dropped one year’s worth of rain in the area around Valencia, Spain last week, causing the deadliest flooding the region has seen in a generation. Valencia is a tourist region ...

Every time there’s an online outage or streaming service starts to buffer, there’s an impulse to blame a hacker...or “the cloud.” After all, web traffic is handled by satellites, right? Wrong.

Yet, these areas, hard hit by climate-change fueled disasters, have been attracting new residents. The metro area around Tampa and St. Petersburg has grown by almost 40 percent since 2000, adding one ...

With all that as background, the new Planetary Health Check report came out last week, saying that the patient—planet Earth—is in critical condition. In its assessment, the Potsdam Institute for ...