Visiting the coast can help you relieve stress and get more active—and it may even change the way you cope with pain.

Now, new research, published Friday in Science ... the National Academies of Sciences gathering this week. In all, the United States contributed up to 2.24 million metric tons into the environment ...

This article was created in partnership with the National Geographic Society ... a University of Georgia environmental engineer who specializes in studying plastic waste in the oceans.

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ... And by the time the science catches up to this, perhaps definitively concluding that ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... by factors in our environment that affect our genes, and by other genes forced into our systems by the ...

Excessive lighting “is an environmental justice issue,” Longcore ... according to a review article published in Science last year. After years of inaction, the lighting industry’s ...

For the first time, the entire reef is affected, according to the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS ... bred to withstand stressful environmental conditions like heat waves and ...

An explosion on Mount Spurr could generate massive cloud of ash, which could mess with airplanes and cause issues for humans.

The Environmental Protection Agency has a more detailed list of items that shouldn’t be tossed in a compost pile. It includes items like yard trimmings treated with pesticides that might kill ...

When the mercury-gold amalgam is heated, the toxin evaporates but stays in the environment ... Rolex is partnering with the National Geographic Society on science-based expeditions to explore ...