Scientists have created an interactive map that shows how parts of Illinois may be swallowed up by Lake Michigan as climate change bites. The Great Lakes in the Midwest comprise the largest unfrozen ...

The 2,175-mile system of interconnected, man-made canals crisscrossing Florida, from Orlando to the Keys, has a particularly important role when a hurricane happens to be pinwheeling toward the ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories exploring the NOAA’s new Sea Level Rise Viewer. Like much of the eastern seaboard, a new tool that predicts how future sea rise may change the ...

In the battle to conserve water, leaking pipes form an insidious enemy, accounting for average losses of 30 percent – but in some localities as much as 70 percent – of piped drinking water across the ...

A new interactive map shows how Michigan's lakes may expand as climate change forces water levels to rise—widening the shorelines and submerging surrounding areas. More than 30 million people live ...