News

Map of low oxygen levels during a July 20-21, 2011, cruise east of the Mississippi River, with hypoxia, levels between zero and 2 parts per million in bottom water, in red, outlined by the black line.
What about the first national park east of the Mississippi that is still a national park? That honor goes to Acadia in Maine. Congress established this park in 1919, more than four decades after ...
Drought’s deadly fingers have moved east, from the dried-up wells of California’s Central Valley and into the American Midwest, where much of America’s food is grown, and even farther, into ...