A hundred kilometres of kelp forests off the western coast of Australia were wiped out by a marine heatwave between 2010 and 2013, a new study has revealed.

The U.S. Department of Interior on Thursday unveiled its final regulations on drilling in the U.S. Arctic Outer Continental Shelf to boost safety in the environmentally sensitive region.

Moules-frites and moules mariniere will be largely consigned to the pages of culinary history by the end of the century, scientists have predicted.

Florida has declared a state of emergency due to the blue-green algae outbreak on the Florida coastline.

Plastic waste found on the beach at Sarstangen on Prince Carls Forland, on the west coast of Svalbard, Norway.

A dead dugong, with injuries researchers say are consistent with entanglement in a fishing net or line, has been found near Townsville, raising concerns about lack of oversight over fishing practic

One of the biggest environmental disasters to hit Vietnam was caused by a unit of a Taiwanese conglomerate leaking toxic waste into the sea, the Hanoi government said on Thursday, ending months of

There was a period during the last ice age when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere went on a rollercoaster ride, plummeting and then rising again every 1,500 years or so.

The Great Barrier Reef could be considered again for an “in danger” listing by the United Nations World Heritage Committee following the devastating bleaching this year, the Guardian can reveal.

What if the way things smell started to change? What if food inexplicably lost its aroma and your house no longer had its familiar homely scent?