Every summer you go down the shore, but lately you’ve begun to notice that the beach seems narrower each time you visit. Is that the sea level rising, or is the sand just being swept away? Speaking of ...

LOMPOC -- The first mission to survey nearly all of the water on Earth's surface has launched. The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, known as SWOT, lifted off aboard a SpaceX ...

In this September 2016 photo, Clint VanSchepen, a hydrologic technician with the U.S. Geological Services Iowa Water Science Center in Iowa City, checks the river gauge on the Twelfth Avenue bridge in ...

A satellite scheduled to launch from California later this month will measure sea level rise and provide other crucial data to scientists who study how global warming is affecting the Earth's oceans.

A bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water mark of the reservoir which has shrunk to its lowest point on the Colorado River, as seen from the Hoover Dam. Photo: Richard Vogel (AP) Human ...