Environment Viewfinder: Focus on Water Conservation at the World Water Forum in Brazil A visitor participates at an event during the eighth World Water Forum in Brasília, Brazil, on March 20th, 2018. Pacific Standard Staff
Environment A Better Way to Clean Up Ocean-Polluting Plastics Hint: Don't go after the Great Pacific garbage patch—which, by the way, isn't really a patch at all. Nathan Collins
Environment Good (and Bad) Tidings: The Biggest Ocean Stories of the Past Year Here was some of the big news coming in from the big blue sea in 2015. David Helvarg
Environment A Struggle to Check the Seafloor Around California’s Oil Spill Any oil that would have sunk to the bottom of the ocean is out of sight—but officials shouldn't put it out of mind. Francie Diep
Environment Astronomers Found an Ancient Ocean on Mars Now a cold, barren desert, Mars once had an ocean bigger than the Arctic. Wes Judd
Environment How to Battle Ocean Acidification It's a fearsome problem. But we're not just watching helplessly. John Upton
Environment How Can We Protect Open Ocean That Does Not Yet Exist? As global warming melts ice and ushers in a wave of commercial activity in the Arctic, scientists are thinking about how to protect environments of the future. John Upton
Environment Another Name for the Bermuda Triangle: The Ocean Ships disappear everywhere, not just in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Katie Heaney
Environment 10 Lies Planet Earth Is Telling You For starters, let's stop calling it "Earth Day." Ryan O'Hanlon