California, China sign climate deal after Trump's Paris exit.
With President Donald Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, China and California signed an agreement Tuesday to work together on...
El Niño and global warming combine to cause record-breaking heat in Southeast Asia
A devastating combination of global warming and El Niño is responsible for causing extreme temperatures in April 2016 in Southeast Asia, scientists have found.
How the Arctic Ocean became saline
The Arctic Ocean was once a gigantic freshwater lake. Only after the land bridge between Greenland and Scotland had submerged far enough did vast...
New way to detect Palmer amaranth in contaminated seedlots
Some seed mixtures planted on Conservation Reserve Program acres have been contaminated with Palmer amaranth, an aggressive weed. Seed producers must choose between time-consuming...
In the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, the Koch brothers’ campaign becomes overt.
The Koch Brothers used to fly far below the radar. Now their astounding influence-buying and efforts to keep the U.S. from embracing climate-change legislation...
Can new reef design save historic shoreline?
Niels Lindquist of the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City takes advantage of the low tide to check an oyster reef structure...
Why do Antarctic krill stocks fluctuate?
It is only six centimeters long, but it plays a major role in the Antarctic ecosystem: the small crustacean Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill). It's...
Protecting ocean waters will aid climate adaptation.
Setting aside vast swathes of ocean and protecting them from industrial uses such as overfishing and other development is critically important to helping both...
New ocean reserve, largest in Africa, protects whales and turtles.
The central African nation of Gabon announced Monday the creation of Africa’s largest network of marine protected areas, home to a diverse array of...
More plastic than fish? Oceans 'under threat as never before,' warns UN chief.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the first U.N. conference on oceans Monday with a warning that the seas are "under threat as never before," noting...
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