It’s been 15 years since the Wyoming Legislature was able to agree on a new calculation for providing money to the state’s 48 public school districts. This year, though, the Legislature ...

GLOUCESTER , MASS. (WHDH) - Officials provided an update Wednesday about the search for the Lily Jean, a 72-foot fishing boat that sank on January 30, roughly 25 miles East of Gloucester. The boat’s ...

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here by permission. President Donald Trump is considering allowing companies to lease more than 113 million acres of waters off Alaska ...

An international expedition has for the first time extensively documented hidden reserves of freshwater beneath the ocean floor, offering fresh insights into what’s largely a poorly understood system.

The goal of this expedition went far beyond collecting sediment cores. Scientists also set out to sample the water stored within the sediments, including from sandy layers that act as aquifers and ...

Democrats suggested that supporting the deep-sea mining industry is a boondoggle. House members on Thursday had starkly different takes on President Donald Trump’s plan to fast-track deep-sea mining ...

The discovery was made in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Shark Bay, Western Australia Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work ...

The rise of artificial intelligence is changing the physical environment in North Carolina and across the South. Companies are building data centers all over the region. AI-driven applications are ...

Deep down in the Arctic Ocean, life becomes bizarre. One might suppose that at its greatest depths, the icy, dark water would be inhospitable to much—but a new discovery reminds us that that is far ...

The federal government said it would hold hearings next month on controversial applications to mine the ocean floor. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it had ...

This dive wasn’t about speed or depth records. It was about exploration along the ocean floor. Moving slowly revealed marine life most swimmers never notice. The sea floor tells its own story. Spring ...

Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of years. These porous breccia deposits store far more carbon than previously ...