The key to understanding how future hurricanes and sea level rise may trigger changes to South Florida's native coastal forests lurks below the surface, according to a new model linking coastal forests to groundwater.

Florida alligators travel upstream and downstream between marshes and the coast.

NOVATO, Calif., Aug.

Science has long believed that a warmer climate will increase river runoff to the Baltic Sea, thus making the inland sea less salty.

A study of the 1999 super cyclone that hit eastern India suggests villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests fared better than other areas. The study by researchers at India's University of Delhi and Duke University in the United States analyzed deaths in 409 villages in the poor, mostly rural Kendrapada District of the Indian state of Orissa, just north of the cyclone's landfall.