WATER

The World Resources Institute's new study finds that water shortages and related stress levels impact economy.

Scientists have found vast aquifers of freshwater underneath the ocean floor, but getting to them will be a challenge.

Sometimes an animal's curiosity makes for funny footage.

The stimulus just approved by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will boost Japan's GDP by 1 percent.

The Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory discovered the wreck of a historic 400-foot Japanese WWII submarine that had been headed for the Panama Canal.

Video of an enormous ice circle spinning in a river in North Dakota is making the rounds on the Internet.

Two years after the nuclear power plant was destroyed, radioactive material continues to leak from the site.

A seawater sample found under Chesapeake Bay is believed to be 100-145 million years old.

The new method is claimed to be accurate enough to identify a narrow channel of open water being cut through the ice at night.

Astronauts inspired Swedish designer Mehrdad Mahdjoubi to develop an eco-friendly shower that recycles 90 percent of the water that goes down the drain.

Some of the most amazing things on Earth can only be seen in extreme close-up.

Researchers have identified a new species of humpback dolphin off the coast of Australia. The new dolphin species, a member of the family of humpback dolphins, has yet to be named.

Every summer public health alerts prompt authorities to shut down recreation sites where the blue-green algae thrive.

Two oarfish washed ashore in California this month, less than a week apart. Scientists say the deaths of the rare and enigmatic oarfish may have been linked.

A new study suggests Yangtze finless porpoises have a hard time using sound to navigate their way through the bustling waters.

A 15-foot-long female Stejneger’s beaked whale typically seen in the Bering Sea and off the coast of Japan washed ashore Tuesday on Venice Beach.

Typhoon Wipha, which killed 17 people in eastern Japan, caused no damage to the crippled Fukushima nuclear facility.

Lakes around the world are steadily warming, but research suggests climate change is causing Lake Superior to warm faster than any other.

Japan's battered Fukushima nuclear power plant may have to absorb its second great pounding by the sea in two years.

A new study indicates the removal of phosphorus in large lakes may lead to an increase in nitrogen pollution downstream.

Since the 2011 disaster, Fukushima has leaked a cumulative 20 to 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium into the Pacific Ocean.