It’s part of the scenario in “The Day After Tomorrow,” but scientists split over how fast or calamitously it may occur. A ...

The state government’s annual budgeting process has swung into full gear, so let’s review how New York decides to spend our tax money.

The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These ...

The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...