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At least 12 whales have washed up on beaches in New York and New Jersey since December. People are spreading misinformation that off-shore wind development caused their deaths.

Hotter temperatures are threatening coral reefs worldwide. Now, scientists are pinpointing how some "super corals" are better able to withstand the heat.

Weeks of rainfall in California won't end a severe drought, but it will provide public water agencies serving 27 million people with much more water than the suppliers had been previously told.

The parade of storms that have pummeled California this winter caused hundreds of rockslides around the state. Now, geologists are out assessing new risks and shoring up protections.

A massive wildfire on Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, has forced hundreds of people to evacuate. It now threatens the resort town of Avalon, as well as several threatened or endangered species, including a rare island fox that only recently has been making a comeback.

For our series Weekly Dose of Wonder, NPR's Carrie Feibel relays a new discovery involving humpback whales going to the undersea spa for some skin care.

While the U.S. Coast Guard investigates the cause of the Titan submersible tragedy, expert submariners say it could have been avoided by following the Navy's design principles known as SUBSAFE.

The mid-Atlantic states are trying to put themselves back together again after a record-setting snowstorm over the weekend. Snowfall totals in some parts of Maryland were over three feet; parts of the Washington and Baltimore metro areas got more than two feet.

Tail-costumed swimmers in the South American nation say they will not bend despite official safety warnings.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Associated Press reporter Martha Mendoza about her findings of abuses in India's shrimp industry, the largest exporter of this seafood to the United States.