The U.S. fishing and seafood sector generated more than $200 billion in annual sales and supported 1.7 million jobs in recent years.

Oxygen levels in the ancient oceans were surprisingly resilient to climate change, new research suggests.

When the Thomas Fire raged through Ventura and Santa Barbara counties in December 2017, Danielle Touma, at the time an earth science researcher at Stanford, was stunned by its severity. 

In a normal year, biologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs spend about six months in Costa Rica, where they conduct research and pursue conservation efforts in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a World Heritage Site in the northwest that encompasses a network of parks and preserves they helped establish in the 1980s and that has grown to more than 400,000 acres, including marine, dry forest, cloud forest, and rain forest environments.

In addition to a skin rash, many eczema sufferers also experience chronic itching, but sometimes that itching can become torturous. 

Central America experienced one of its most intense hurricane season in years, leading to widespread degradation to coastal environments.

The lack of snow cover in December left Japan’s iconic mountain looking a little different than usual.

Meteorologists declared it the largest snowfall in the region since 1971.

Human-produced greenhouse gas emissions are largely responsible for warming our planet, adding excess heat to the Earth.

Overall, Earth’s average temperature has risen more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1880s.