This aerial view shows a beautiful coastal town resting along a rugged shoreline with dramatic mountain cliffs rising behind ...

The law was passed in 2023 as a part of a broader effort by the Seattle City Council to regulate the so-called gig economy.

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to ...

The U.S. military continues to conduct large-scale strikes on Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen to counter their assault on global commerce and attempts to weaken Israel. A man sits on the rubble of ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Where Quidnessett Country Club meets Narragansett Bay stands a roughly 600-foot sea wall, and it has put the country club in the crosshairs of the Rhode Island Attorney ...

There’s a lot of celebrity bling on offer at 26 Sea View Ave. in Piedmont: It’s a mid-century modern mansion on the city’s biggest lot, built for a famous family by one of San Francisco’s most iconic ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug. 8 ...

Nathan Angelakis is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) – Aquatic Sciences. This project was supported with funding from ...

Daphne, Phoebe, Iris and Pasithea demonstrated how marine mammals can help scientists understand mysterious places that humans may never visit. By Kate Golembiewski Around much of the planet, an ...

Exploring the world’s seabeds is a complicated, expensive and long process. Typically, researchers send remotely operated vehicles into deep waters, where they face extremely high pressures and low ...

Five years ago, Lisa Clark and her husband left her hometown of El Centro for Niland, a small town of 500, in search for more affordable housing. But now they’re paying a hidden cost for living just ...

For us land-dwellers, being crushed under several miles of ocean water wouldn’t end very well. But for a deep-sea dwelling ctenophore, also known as a comb jelly, being brought up to the surface can ...