Great Lakes ice coverage was well-below the average.

Influence of greenhouse gas emissions cited as contributing cause.

A major ocean current in the Arctic is faster and more turbulent as a result of rapid sea ice melt, a new study from NASA shows.

Microplastics are accumulating in Orkney’s seagrass beds at much higher rates than in the areas surrounding them.

Scientists studying so-called 'flammable ice' in the Sea of Japan have made a startling discovery - the existence of life within microscopic bubbles.

Scientists were able to monitor seismic activity with a fibre optic cable connecting a North Sea wind farm to the shore.

Alaska’s Tongass and Chugach National Forests, which contain some of the world’s largest remaining tracts of intact temperate rainforest, contribute an average of 48 million salmon a year to the state’s commercial fishing industry, a new USDA Forest Service-led study(link is external) has found.

Tropical forest trees are the centerpiece of debates on conservation, climate change and carbon sequestration today. 

New research led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and partner organizations yielded the first comprehensive global biodiversity map documenting the distribution of life both on land and in the ocean.

Hundreds of years ago, colossal oysters were commonplace across much of Florida’s northern Gulf Coast.