The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved legislation Wednesday to bolster international cooperation around critical minerals and appoint a diplomat to oversee Arctic affairs. The panel cleared ...

With all the literal and figurative noise in the Santa Barbara Channel, migratory whales looking to shack up in its waters often struggle and stress. The channel — a designated Whale Heritage Area — ...

The UN’s net-zero push is coming to a head with the Trump administration efforts to revamp US shipping. A fight is brewing ahead of the upcoming meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

MACKINAW CITY, MI -- While most people experience the Mackinac Bridge from behind a steering wheel, 266 determined swimmers from 28 states chose a more challenging perspective on Saturday, completing ...

A vital artery of global commerce has become a battlefield. Months into their self-declared war on Israel and its allies, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are turning the Red Sea into a proving ...

Methane is awful for the environment: it's the second most abundant greenhouse gas in the air after carbon dioxide, and is about 28 times as powerful as CO2 in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere ...

The full Trump tariff nightmare that had investors jumping ship in April — that is, fears of price spikes, barren store shelves, mangled shipping lanes and a recession — hasn’t yet come true. And even ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday called for the U.S. and other oil-producing economies to pump more oil as crude prices remain volatile following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday called for the U.S. and other oil-producing economies to pump more oil as crude prices remain volatile following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear ...