Sitting in darkness, deep below the sunlit surface, an iridescent nightmare awaits its prey. With precision and speed, it ...

In nature’s grand tapestry, rivers play a vital role in cutting through the landscape and delivering nutrients and sediments ...

A University of Washington study offers new insights into the end of the last Snowball Earth event, explaining how melting ...

The Chesapeake Bay has made some progress, thanks to the intervention of people working to repair the damage humans have done ...

The number of fatalities may be relatively small but each tragedy tells a story about a shifting, more dangerous landscape.

Don't toss that bottle of whiskey or rum just yet. When it comes to naturally forming sediment in wine, there’s a solution: decanting. But what does it mean when you have sediment in bottles of ...

Nestled in the Uinta Mountains of northern Utah, a series of pristine lakes are facing a new threat—humans. Geography ...

A microorganism you can't see is consuming Titanic on the bottom of the Atlantic. How many years until the famous liner is gone?

California has placed the Tule groundwater subbasin on probationary status, a step that brings additional state oversight, ...

A project by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the Anacostia Riverkeeper will remove boats, electric ...

AT&T has agreed to remove thousands of pounds of toxic lead cables that have been submerged in Lake Tahoe for decades, ...

The Bobcat Fire destroyed more than 115,000 acres in and around the Angeles National Forest four years ago, and forced the ...