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Nearly 10 years ago, Caribbean beaches experienced a sudden onslaught of Sargassum. Today residents continue to explore ways to mitigate the seaweed’s damage to local health and livelihoods.

Zimbabwe’s groundwater is disappearing fast, leaving rural communities without water for household and agricultural use.

New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change.

A new report supports the creation of a compensation fund for nations that rely on terrestrial mining, but it fails to dispel environmental concerns over deep-sea mining.

Modeling of mysteriously fluctuating water levels in the Great Lakes has helped to optimize the prices of shipping insurance contracts along with investments in dredging navigation channels.

Take extreme weather risks into account, and markets could prove hardier in a changing world.

The protective value of a plot of wetlands varies widely based on the county it shields from storm-related property damage.

The real jobs report: A new analysis shows that science, tech, and engineering careers are this country’s engine.

Experts have given the United States a warning: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or suffer the consequences of lower productivity and a sicker population for generations to come.