If the lake were to completely dry up there would be a horror to behold. While at shrinking Lake Mead a few gangster cadavers ...

Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits ...

Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then skirt Joshua Tree National Park to cruise ...

The lakes of the US are often thought of as great holiday destinations. All of them provide a combination of hiking, boating, ...

Randy 'R Dub!' Williams runs the desert micro-nation of Slowjamastan, an 11-acre expanse that makes fun of the concept of the ...

A huge Mola Mola fish, also known as an ocean sunfish, found itself stranded near the Florida coast. What's a very large and ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

On Thursday, the Aquarium of the Pacific released its first Marine Species Report Card, detailing the population trends of 30 ...

Meanwhile, other scientists ‒ including Ana Zangroniz, a Florida sea grant extension agent at the University of Florida ‒ contested PETA's conclusion and said people who believe fish are in ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

Jan. 30, 2025 — Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity.