Worldwide, coastal areas are squeezed between a rising sea level on one end and human structures on the other. The distance ...

St. Johns County leaders are all cheers after a developer withdraws a plan to swap scattered acreage across the state for 600 ...

Wetlands are essential ecosystems that provide a variety of ecological functions, including carbon sequestration, water ...

Among the rocks and marine fossils, scientists have found fossilized pollen from the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene periods that reflects changes in the surrounding ecosystems. The pollen reveals ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government will launch offshore "blue carbon" research aimed at capturing carbon dioxide ...

One of the world's leading beach ecology experts has again renewed the push to limit the number of four-wheel drives allowed ...

Planning a visit to an N.C. beach this summer? The state's wildlife resources agency urges alligator awareness.

Attorney Bernarda Villalona talked with ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos about the defense’s questioning of Sean Combs’ ...

A suspect was reportedly taken into custody after a wildfire burned about 1 acre in El Capitan Canyon on the Gaviota Coast ...

Gold Coast City Council is considering an Urban Tree Canopy Plan ... “It just took out so much of our vegetation. We do need ...

There's a long list of benefits from coastal greenbelts that often don't make it to the news. Yet for all their benefits, these coastal ecosystems aren't exempt from threats induced by humans.

The impacts of human activity and climate change are coalescing to make coastal lagoons saltier, changing the microbial life ...