Cape Town, South Africa, came perilously close to running out of fresh water for its nearly 5 million people in 2018 during ...

Undersea freshwater isn’t unique to New England. Coastal aquifer systems have been inferred or sampled near South Africa, Canada’s Prince Edward Island, Hawaiʻi, Jakarta, and likely along many other ...

Moonshot proposals to save the planet’s ice sheets are gaining popularity as the planet heats up. But none of the most ...

Panama’s oceans broke a 40-year rhythm in 2025 when upwelling failed, leaving reefs, fisheries, and ecosystems at risk.

Unable to wall itself off from the Pacific Ocean, the Malaspina Glacier is losing 20 to 30 feet per year in surface elevation ...

Understanding why ocean water is salty but river water isn’t is a fascinating topic, and one that has intrigued scientists for centuries. The answer lies in a combination of geological and ...

The sea is rising. Property and infrastructure near and on the shoreline will be at risk of flooding. In Marin, that means ...

Called subsea desalination, the idea is to remove the salt from water in the deep sea. If it worked at scale, the technology could greatly alleviate the world’s water access problems.

For all of the natural and human-made hardships the U.S. west coast must endure—earthquakes, droughts, wildfires—it is ...

Steve Callahan's life changed when his boat took on water in 1982, causing him to flee to his life raft. For the next 76 days, he floated 1,800 miles alone in an inflatable life raft, learning to fish ...

Experts told USA TODAY that stormwater runoff and sewage overflows were among the most likely causes, both of which are exacerbated by heavy rains, flooding and warming temperatures. Other ...