Coastal Restoration

The Greenland ice sheet lost 20 percent more ice than scientists previously thought, posing potential problems for ocean circulation and sea level rise, a study says.

Explore the Earth at night as seen by Suomi NPP VIIRS using the Esri ArcGIS API for JavaScript. Lights are rendered as 3D terrain.

Thirteen percent of the world's ocean is considered marine wilderness—crucial areas of water where biodiversity is able to flourish.

The “Great Dying” of Indigenous populations in the Americas after the arrival of Europeans is the largest human mortality event in proportion to the global population, putting it second in absolute terms only to World War II. The devastation of the population also caused a drop in atmospheric CO₂. During this period, severe winters and cold summers caused famines and rebellions from Europe to Japan.

For nearly three weeks, Yosemite has been besieged by fire. It's a summer without any crowds — the park is closed — but a lot of smoke and worry.

The amount of trash flowing into the world's oceans is worse than thought-eight million tons a year, says new study.