Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

In June 2024 The Economist remembered Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, the mission’s lunar module pilot. Anders also took perhaps the most famous environmental image ever— Earthrise. Against the ...

The Great Sea Reef that hugs Fiji’s northwestern shores is a biodiversity hotspot and deeply important to the country and its people.

The trillion-ton slab of ice — called a megaberg — could slam into South Georgia Island, making it hard for penguin parents to feed their babies and some young could even starve.

Chris Pratt shared that his Pacific Palisades home “miraculously” survived the Los Angeles wildfires, though he noted that his ex-wife Anna Faris didn’t have the same luck.

The United Nations Children's Fund says at least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather.

USA Track & Field is set to host the 2025 USATF Indoor Championships presented by Prevagen February 22-23 in Staten Island, New York at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex. Some of the nation’s ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out of Eden Walk, tracing humankind's journey out of Africa, has crossed 21 ...

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean seemed to produce oxygen without sunlight ...

The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to shipping lanes and vacationers whether ...

Researchers report in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology that ocean acidification could shift the male-female ratios in oysters, creating more females over time and impacting future population ...