Plans for a new gas-drilling rig near a seaside town have been unanimously opposed by local decision-makers. The planning ...

The U.S. is the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas. There are almost 1 million producing wells across the ...

The Earth's sea level is constantly increasing. A real flood may soon begin, because since 1880 the world’s ocean waters have ...

The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

In an analysis of the best available Earth systems models, Northeastern researchers found that by the turn of the next ...

Have you ever wondered what Earth's largest waterfall is? While a few might come close, there's only one that truly sets ...

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river ...

Scientists found that large-scale dam building since 1835 shifted Earth's poles over a meter and significantly lowered sea ...

According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Cities, 28 of the most populous U.S. cities are sinking. It’s due ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...