Secretary of State Marco Rubio flies into the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis on Wednesday for talks with regional leaders who, like others around the world,…
Read more Rubio Flies Into the Caribbean for Talks With Leaders Unsettled by Trump PoliciesPORTLAND, Maine — The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing whales, prompting criticism from environmental groups who cite…
Read more US ocean regulator faces criticism over changes to right whale protection ruleHOUSTON — HOUSTON (AP) — Winter’s brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what…
Read more It’s one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one’s path is uncertainCARLSBAD, Calif. — Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of desalination’s biggest problems by moving the technology deep…
Read more In a warming world, freshwater production is moving deep beneath the seaA shift in balance at the frozen edges of Antarctica could disrupt the balance in all of the world’s oceans — affecting weather patterns and even global food…
Read more Scientists sound alarm over little-known threat emerging from Antarctica: ‘Acting like a giant conveyor belt’WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has directed five large-scale wind projects under construction off the East Coast to suspend their activities for at least 90 days, according to…
Read more Trump order halts offshore wind projects for at least 90 daysANTARCTICA (AP) — The Southern Ocean is one of the most remote places on Earth, but that doesn’t mean it is tranquil. Tumultuous waves that can swallow vessels…
Read more In Antarctica, Photos Show a Remote Area Teeming With Life Amid Growing Risks From Climate ChangeBAYAHIBE, Dominican Republic — Oxygen tank strapped to his back, Michael del Rosario moves his fins delicately as he glides along an underwater nursery just off the Dominican…
Read more As reefs vanish, assisted coral fertilization offers hope in the Dominican RepublicPETIT GOÂVE, Haiti (AP) — Amizia Renotte sat on a broken piece of concrete and pointed to a large pile of dirt where her house once stood before…
Read more Hunger and makeshift shelters persist in north Caribbean nearly 2 months after Hurricane MelissaNORTH SEA, Denmark — Appearing first as a dot on the horizon, the remote Nini oil field on Europe’s rugged North Sea slowly comes into view from a…
Read more Ambitious plan to store CO2 beneath the North Sea set to start operationsNORTH SEA, Denmark (AP) — Appearing first as a dot on the horizon, the remote Nini oil field on Europe’s rugged North Sea slowly comes into view from…
Read more Ambitious plan to store CO2 beneath the North Sea set to start operationsBy day, families walk toward the nearest river to fill plastic containers with water and by night, they squeeze together to sleep under temporary shelters and tents. “We…
Read more Thousands of Cubans Struggle Without Power and Water Nearly a Month After Hurricane MelissaA wooden skiff believed to have been ferrying migrants toward the U.S. capsized in stormy seas near San Diego, leaving at least four people dead and four hospitalized,…
Read more 4 Dead After Wooden Boat Believed to Be Ferrying Migrants Into the US Capsizes off San DiegoANCHORAGE, Alaska — Rayann Martin sat in a classroom hundreds of miles from her devastated Alaska Native village and held up 10 fingers when the teacher asked the…
Read more Uncommon program helps children displaced by flooding that devastated Alaska villagesIn 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to the Stokes waves. As they expected, for disturbances above a…
Read more The Hidden Math of Ocean WavesSANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba — The rumble of large machinery, whine of chain saws and chopping of machetes echoed through communities across the northern Caribbean on Thursday as…
Read more Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the piecesJUNEAU, Alaska — A fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low tide in the western…
Read more Archaeological site in Alaska that casts light on early Yup’ik life ravaged by ex-Typhoon HalongKINGSTON, Jamaica — Heavy floodwaters swept across southwestern Jamaica, winds tore roofs off buildings and boulders tumbled onto roads Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa came ashore as a catastrophic…
Read more Hurricane Melissa, brings flooding, catastrophic winds to JamaicaHurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica with record-tying 185 mph winds Tuesday, was a beast that stood out as extreme even in a record number of monster storms spawned…
Read more Melissa Is a Beast Among a String of Monster Atlantic Storms. Scientists ExplainThe monster storm strengthened Tuesday before hitting Jamaica, bringing with it maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295 kph). It’s the strongest Atlantic hurricane to make landfall since…
Read more Hurricane Melissa Is Among the Most Powerful Atlantic Hurricanes on Record