In this Sept. 5, 2012 photo, a structure sits submerged in Lake Azuei seen near Jimani, Dominican Republic, near the border with Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) There seems to be no explanation for why a pair of lakes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic continue to rise. Lake Azuéi in Haiti and Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic have encroached on thousands of acres of land in recent years, according to National Geographic, swallowing up lands that are home...

The minibus may seem like a thing from the past, but one company has come up with a new model that is also good for the environment. ...

A local municipal worker collects dead fish at Ulsoor Lake in Bangalore, India, on March 7, 2016. Thousands of dead fish washed up on the banks of the polluted lake on Monday as nearby residents alleged that sewage has been flowing into the lake depleting its oxygen. Thousands of dead fish that have washed up on the banks of Ulsoor Lake in Bangalore, India, have tainted the air in residential areas with a foul stench. Residents’ group president V. Purushottam...

An example of what the beach huts made out of ocean debris and designed by Spark architecture firm would look like on the beaches of Singapore. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so when creative minds at architecture firm Spark saw debris littering Singapore’s beaches they came up with a design for colorful, eco-friendly beach huts. According to NOAA, marine debris is “any persistent solid material that is manufactured or processed and directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally,...

Sitting adjacent to Biscayne National Park, the Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station has been leaking radioactive materials into protected waters, according to a new study. Performed by Dr. David Chin from the University of Miami, the results released Tuesday morning by Miami-Dade County found high levels of a radioactive isotope in Biscayne Bay. Those radioactive waters are coming from the power plant's cooling canals, raising radioactivity levels 215 times higher than normally found in seawater, the report added. "This is...

Oklahoma has seen an increase in earthquakes to more than 900 last year. Now they are taking action against companies drilling for oil and gas. Matt Sampson has more info. ...

Following a six-year period of intensifying earthquakes, the Oklahoma House voted to have the state’s oil and gas industry limit its underground wastewater disposal that has led to a growing number of quakes across the state. The proposal released by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission spans over 400 wells across an area of 6,000 square miles, according to the Associated Press. The commission's plan was released just a few weeks after a similar proposal covering almost 250 wells in northwestern Oklahoma...

Official hurricane records only go back so far– to 1851, to be exact. Without a written account of a hurricane, it has been difficult for scientists to dive deep into the history of these tropical storms. What is easy to dive deep into, however, is the plethora of shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean– and as it turns out, these shipwrecks offer up meteorological clues of their own. "We're the first to use shipwrecks to study hurricanes in the past," the...

In Los Angeles County, this week's rainfall was beneficial to fighting the drought in Southern California, but officials wanted to ensure they maximized the amount of precipitation that fell during the event. So they seeded the clouds with silver iodide, according to the L.A. Times, in an effort to draw even more rainfall from the skies. But this controversial practice may not be as fruitful as local officials insist, scientists say. The process of weather modification through cloud seeding has...

This image, taken Dec. 16, 2015, shows the massive crack in the Nansen Ice Shelf on the edge of Antarctica. (Image via NASA) A 30-mile-long ice shelf is in danger of losing its front and floating into the Southern Sea, according to images captured from above by NASA. The administration recently posted an image of the Nansen Ice Shelf, located near Terra Nova Bay, that showed a huge crack running across the plate. Measuring 30 miles long and 20 miles...

Extreme weather events, like scorching heat waves and frigid cold spells, are being linked to man-made climate change, according to a new report. (National Academy of Sciences) Extreme weather events, such as heat waves or droughts, are being worsened by man-made climate change, a new report claims. Scientists found distinct links between extreme weather events and climate change, claimingthe events were more likely and more extreme because of man-made global warming, according to thereport from the National Academies of Sciences,...

The Itaipu hydroelectric plant is just one of the 191 dams already built on the Amazon basin. (Christian Rizzi/AFP/Getty Images) The Amazon basin's abundance of dam building projects are threatening to extinct "countless" unique animals and plants, a new study claims. While the Amazon makes up nearly a fifth of all water given off by rivers across the globe, the dam system may not be as green as it may seem on paper, says a new study in Biodiversity and...

Two ring-tailed lemurs, an endangered breed that has become popular as pets, are pictured in Antananarivo, Madagascar. (David Rogers/Getty Images) While most vacation destinations boast hotels with luxuries like spas and lavish swimming pools, Madagascar adds a competitive edge by showing off their pet lemurs - an unofficial amenity that could be harmful to the species, some of which are endangered. Native to Madagascar, lemurs are distant relatives of apes. Their small stature and charm make them a popular local...