Improved inland surface water quality across the country is mainly attributable to reduced pollution emissions in the industrial, rural, and urban residential sectors

A comparison of protected and impacted reefs in Cuba and Florida Keys

Although coastal wetlands cover only about two percent of the ocean surface, they are estimated to sequester more than 50 percent of the carbon captured by the ocean per year

The image may sound like an alien winter wonderland, but the scientists who led the research said it is akin to how rocks form inside volcanoes

Humankind will need to harness carbon capture and storage technologies to help keep global warming to 2 degrees C or less; new research shows that there's plenty of room to store captured CO2—in offshore geologic rock formations

Using historical data from tide gauges that line US coasts, researchers created an extreme sea level indicator

The innovative use of aeroponics may usher in a new era of science for cassava genetic improvement and sustainable intensification

Rapanui people likely believed the ancient monoliths helped food grow on the Polynesian island, study reveals

Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impact

Researchers at the University of Washington have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change projections, can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains

The challenge with studying deep marine carbon is that it is a mixture of fresh material delivered from the surface and an aged component

This "cascade" of changes sparked by global warming could threaten the existence of human civilizations