A new conservancy will oversee work to improve vegetation, water quality and natural habitat in the Salton Sea. Will nearly half a billion dollars be enough?

Just try visiting the San Juan Islands without provoking daydreams of running away to live among the orcas and farmstands.

An influx of salt from both land and sea and a warming world are condemning the world's rivers, streams and estuaries to a ...

Pieces of this coastal Ghana community disappear into the sea when heavy waves batter the shore — sweeping away houses and land, threatening to unearth bodies buried in cemeteries and devastating ...