The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

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The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta ...

Gulf of Where? In the same name-swapping order, designed to take effect by mid-February, Trump declared that the Gulf of ...

Each year, cities, states and individuals spread millions of tons of road salt, which can leach into nearby freshwater ...

It's important not to disturb hibernating bats. Shaking them will cause a loss of fat reserves they rely on to get to the end ...

If Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination is approved, he would oversee health at a time when environmental impacts loom large.

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... reflecting the lack of treated water and other basic government services. In Ad Dali life goes on despite four ...

The Trump administration has directed federal agency staff to remove climate references and scientific data from many web ...