Every year, human activities release billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These gases trap heat from the ...

Staff at the Institution pick their favorite reads of the year, including riveting memoirs, fascinating true histories and ...

A polar bear stands on floating sea ice in the Arctic. The bears rely on sea ice to move throughout their hunting grounds.

Scott L. Schwartz, best known for playing Bruiser in the Ocean's Eleven trilogy, has died at age 65 due to congestive heart ...

"At first, we thought it was a joke until we saw it," the couple from France, Noémie and Robin, told Newsweek.

On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons.

Orcas off the coast of Mexico have devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks, and marine scientists have ...

For the wayfinders and navigators that practice Polynesian voyaging, the clues of where to go are all around the big blue and ...

We took a January transatlantic journey on the Queen Mary 2, the only cruise vessel designed to handle the 30-foot-high waves ...

Less than 3% of the world's oceans are fully or highly protected now. Portugal makes historic decision about the future of ...

"It's because there are places we want to go in the solar system to look for life, and we think life needs water." ...