Microplastics are pervasive, contaminating our food and water sources, posing a significant health concern. Microplastics ...

Karen Madorin is a retired teacher, writer, photographer, outdoors lover, and sixth-generation Kansan.

As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning.

Pockets of water exist that are so salty they behave more like dense syrup than seawater. These deep, hidden lakes are called ...

Two British women resume their audacious bid to row 8,000 miles non-stop across the Pacific Ocean on Monday, after a dramatic ...

Nuclear desalination is offering countries in the Arab region and beyond a clean alternative to energy-hungry traditional desalination.

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 ca ...

Nuclear desalination is offering countries in the Arab region and beyond a clean alternative to energy-hungry traditional desalination.Freshwater ...

The Atlantic Ocean was formed by the dramatic break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, splintering our planet into drifting ...

More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the ...