Five oceanfront homes collapsed in Buxton, North Carolina, this week, bringing the number of homes that have fallen into the ...

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

With its clear waters and white-sand beaches, the Maldives has an otherworldly quality to it. This theme continues at the ...

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself apart. This process is likely part of the normal life cycle of what's known ...

The oceans — vast, ancient, and seemingly eternal — are shifting faster than scientists once believed possible. Temperatures ...

Human-caused climate change is making major hurricanes like Melissa much stronger, faster and ultimately more ...

The ocean is offering a whole new menu due to climate change. The question is whether we'll help fishermen take the order.

Melissa is now moving across the Atlantic Ocean as a category 2 hurricane, and is now pushing closely towards the Bermuda ...

Hurricane Melissa now holds a place in Atlantic basin record books as one of the most powerful tropical cyclones to develop ...

Hurricane Melissa moves toward Bermuda after more than 30 die across Caribbean More than 30 deaths are being attributed to ...

Melissa is now pushing towards the southern Bahamas/Turks and Caicos Islands as a category 2 hurricane. As a result, these ...

In June 1874, Livingston Stone, a Harvard-educated federal fish commissioner, embarked on a bold experiment. He planned to use a custom-built railcar to transport live lobsters and seawater from ...