In one of the largest deals to protect open space in the Bay Area over the past decade, an environmental group is purchasing a scenic redwood forest in the North Bay that will create a 7-mile-long ...

The U.S. has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The question, though, is whether this is important ...

Scientists have withdrawn plans to conduct a controversial geoengineering experiment in ocean waters south of Martha’s ...

In his Inaugural Address, President Donald Trump announced that he would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf ...

A new study of water quality in Australian rivers reveals surprising changes since the turn of the century: good for the ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey referred to the body of water on the state’s southern border as the Gulf of America during her State of the State address Tuesday.

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

Look closely at the environmental biology and you'll find that it's even a region inhabited by the kinds of creatures you'd expect to find on the ocean bed." The Oilwell Basin's environment is ...

the Mediterranean was a dried-up salt plain cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. Around 5.3 million years ago, the eastern and western Mediterranean basins were suddenly refilled during an event known ...

Fed by the mighty Columbia and Snake rivers and their many tributaries that eventually reach the Pacific Ocean, it stretches ... All in all, the Columbia River basin is one of the largest in ...

HALIFAX - The Royal Canadian Navy says a sailor has died in the Bedford Basin after a boat capsized. The Navy says two sailors were operating a rigid-hull inflatable boat in the Halifax-area bay ...

Basin Electric Power Cooperative announced on Thursday that it officially plans to seek regulatory approval for a massive power plant in northwest North Dakota. The natural gas-fired 1,470 ...