Researchers warn that increased salt contamination in tidal rivers could threaten drinking water and agricultural irrigation across the globe. In a new analysis published in Environmental Science & ...

While 70% of Earth's surface is covered by water, only 2.5% is freshwater and less than 1% of this freshwater is accessible through traditional sources. This scarcity, compounded by population growth ...

New research from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals that by 2100, seawater will infiltrate underground freshwater supplies in approximately three out of every four coastal regions globally.

ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic (AP) — Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 ...

Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for ...

ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic — Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ...