The Obama administration yesterday announced its intention to designate a vast portion of U.S.-controlled areas of the Pacific Ocean as a nature preserve. Although packaged as part of the president’s ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out of Eden Walk, tracing humankind's journey out of Africa, has crossed 21 ...

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean seemed to produce oxygen without sunlight ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After ...

President Trump is set to make his first trip as president to visit areas devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires.

In his first TV interview since taking office, President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal aid from California unless the state overhauls its water management policies.

Trump is taking aim at water supplies for an endangered fish, but scientists say he’s missing the point. It’s one of ...

The phenomenon is expected to last until April, with more humidity in Central America and northern South America, and more ...

A metallic and reflective visual anomaly, called the Taraia Object, is the main body and tail of the missing aircraft, ...

The people whose houses were spared in the L.A. fires are grappling with a flood of mixed emotions: Their homes are still ...