The weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is boosting the sea level along the New England coast on top of sea level rise from melting ice, adding to flooding ...

Nature-based solutions are cost-effective and scalable: UC Santa Cruz and US Geological Survey researchers found that ...

New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, ...

The dismantling of the agency will affect fisheries, oceans, and weather forecasting. U.S. fishers are already feeling the ...

Farming of the Pacific oyster has been banned in Denmark since 1998, yet despite this measure, Pacific oyster beds are now ...

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center safeguards the vibrant ecosystems—and economic power—of our coastal zones ...

One of the most dangerous fault lines that threatens the United States lurks off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, capable ...

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been ...

A powerful earthquake, combined with rising sea levels, could significantly increase flood risks in the Pacific Northwest, impacting thousands of residents and properties in northern California, ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will take ...

The range of distance from a star that will allow water to remain a liquid is called the habitable zone. D: So we Earthlings are lucky, I guess, that we're just the right distance aw ...

New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...