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A recent report examines how offshore wind farms could affect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an application by energy companies to change the venue of a multibillion-dollar coastal erosion trial set to begin Nov. 27 in Cameron Parish.

For hundreds of years, business owners engaged in New Jersey’s commercial fisheries industry have weathered adversity, from coastal storms to species shifts.

Evolution of plants, animals: “A very special case within a far larger natural phenomenon.” Similar marvels occur with stars, planets, minerals, other complex systems; When a novel configuration works well and function improves, evolution occurs

<p>A paper in the prestigious <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> today describes “a missing law of nature,” recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world’s workings.  </p> <p>In essence, the new law states that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity, and complexity. In other words, evolution is not limited to life on Earth, it also occ...

The storm should hit Mexico Sunday and could cause historic rainfall in the Southwest.

Learn about saving Caribbean coral reefs

Sea level rise combines with other factors to create extreme risk for this former swamp. These factors explain why.

Sea level rise combines with other factors to create extreme risk for this former swamp. These factors explain why.

Ocean plankton produce half of the oxygen on earth. Scientists are racing to understand how a rapidly warming planet is affecting these critical oxygen-creators.