A new study finds only 17 per cent of the world’s peatlands are in protected areas, a vast under-protection considering how critical they are to carbon storage, biodiversity and water regulation. But ...

Scientists warn that the world's sea ice - the frozen ocean water at the North and South Poles - has plunged to a record low.

Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

But scientists warn that the world's sea ice – the frozen ocean water at the North and South Poles – has plunged to a record ...

More than 3,000 people from across the country responded to the survey, which ranked the Top 100 winter road trips.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Central New York is getting blasted with lake effect snow today that’s coming from as far as 600 miles away.

Hayden Island has borne several names. For four decades, it was best known for the Jantzen Beach amusement park. Today, a spread-out shopping center and residential neighborhood inhabit the same sandy ...

The city has a tentative plan for the Furgary Shacks, the cluster of shanties on the Hudson River that date back to the 1880s. Two of the remaining shacks would be reconstructed for other uses and a ...

That includes breathing some life into an idea that sounded fanciful mere months ago: Transporting oil across the northern Manitoba muskeg and filling tankers at a port on Hudson Bay. A map ...

A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday ... prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that ...

Jean-Paul Rodrigue, a professor at the Texas A&M University-Galveston, calls it 'a niche port,' because the water of Hudson Bay is frozen for most of the year. (Joshua A. Bickel/Associated Press) ...

Hudson put an important message in rhinestones on her lobster purse before walking the red carpet at Sports Illustrated The Party Natasha Dye Jordon Hudson was making a statement during Super Bowl ...