The world’s desalination plants, which use energy intensive processes to remove salt from water, produce enough toxic brine each year...
The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change
Carbon emissions are acidifying the ocean so quickly that the seafloor is disintegrating. According to a new study, ocean acidification...
This Remote Hawaiian Island Just Vanished
Photo: Before, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Scientists are concerned about what will happen to the hundreds of endangered species...
Three newspapers confront one challenge: Sea-level rise is real
In August, 2017, a woman walks along a flooded sidewalk along Alton Road near Michigan Avenue in Miami Beach. New...
The cataclysmic cost of Trump’s ‘war on oceans’
Photo illustration by Lesley Becker/Globe Staff/Adobe Stock This summer, 60 million Americans will head to the seaside to enjoy majestic...