After a disastrous year for coral reefs in which abnormally high ocean temperatures served a fatal blow to many of the vital underwater ecosystems, researchers have found a glimmer of hope off the ...

Here's how the magazine describes the rationale for its analysis of what a drowning world will look like. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, sea level on an iceless Earth would be as much as 216 ...

Celebrating the anniversary of the world’s first atlas, Google honored Belgian cartographer Abraham Ortelius with a Doodle on Sunday. His famed work, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, or Theatre of the World, ...

Earlier, I wrote that arctic sea ice had yesterday reached record low levels, blowing through the previous lowest-seen minimum in 2007, even though there’s still a lot of melting left to go. NASA just ...

About half of the shoreline running along the lip of San Francisco Bay has no plans in place to protect against future rising seas. That’s in terms of the cost of preparing the region for the climate ...

Map of the South China Sea, with the Nine-Dash Line highlighted in green. The South China Sea is the world's most-contested waterway. Book reviews are the literary equivalent of visiting a buffet line ...

Billions of people now live in rapidly changing coastal areas that must develop plans to adapt to a future that includes rising seas, crumbing cliffs, and devastating hurricanes. Now they’ll have help ...