Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.

In the last decade, several incidents of extreme ocean temperatures have occurred off the coast of California, commonly referred to as marine heat waves. The unusually warm waters and dramatic ...

TORRANCE, Calif.— Following the recent discovery that up to 500,000 barrels of the banned pesticide DDT were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the Center for Biological Diversity ...