Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth, yet only 20% of the seafloor has yet been mapped. The race to understand these depths could further scientific understanding, but also lead to exploitation.

These mountains are sculpted when an underwater volcano explodes, spewing hot plumes from the mantle in pipe-like upwellings. Over 11 million square miles of Earth’s ocean floor is covered with ...

Gabrielle is expected to become a hurricane Sunday and pass east of Bermuda, more than 1,000 miles from Florida.

So much news, so little space to opine. Yep, it's another hodge-podge of tidbits from the world of change, status quo and the ...

Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park near Crescent City represents one of California’s most spectacular oversights – a colossal preserve that somehow manages to stay off everyone’s radar despite ...

The cioppino deserves its own paragraph of adoration – a tomato-based seafood stew that has earned national recognition for good reason. This hearty bowl arrives teeming with crab, shrimp, scallops, ...

When Gus was just a sapling 1,000 years ago, there were an estimated 250 million people on Earth, far less than today’s 6.8 ...