(THE CONVERSATION) When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast stretches of coastal mangroves, once housing rich stocks of ...

A new initiative was launched on Thursday to help communities profit from efforts to protect at least 30% of the world's ...

University of Melbourne hydrology professor Dongryeol Ryu and his collaborator Ki-Weon Seo were on a train to visit Ryu's family when they found something startling. Stopped at a station for technical ...

Beneath the towering Guadalupe Mountains of Texas lies a dramatic story of transformation. Once part of an ancient sea, the ...

The sea of tomorrow might be about as difficult to traverse stealthily as an elephant stomping through a room full of ...

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

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in ...

Spring is in the air, at last. Perhaps more miraculous — certainly more useful, existentially speaking — these phytoplankton ...

Salty soils are causing reduced crop density, lower yields and barren lands unable to sustain crop growth. Sea level rise, ...

UK must prepare for attacks on home soil, senior RAF official warns ...