In August 2026, back-to-back winter storms left parts of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile covered in a rare blanket of snow. 

After orbiting Earth in 1962, John Glenn remarked on an irrigated valley northwest of El Paso, Texas, that stood out against the surrounding desert. 

Summer is prime iceberg season in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 was no exception. 

The month of May typically marks the onset of the wet season in Puerto Rico. 

Isotopes of atmospheric water leave fingerprints that can improve weather modeling.

Global study of more than 23,000 marine mollusk species projects major shifts in body size by 2100 — including surprising growth in some animals and ocean regions.

On the windswept coasts of Oregon and California, there lives an unassuming little plant that can withstand salty blasts that kill its inland counterparts.

Relatively few people have been to the Arctic, and even fewer have set foot in Antarctica. 

Somersett, a short drive from downtown Reno, Nevada, is a peaceful place where homes with sweeping, high-desert views line cul-de-sacs and roads meander through shrubland, trailheads, and golf courses.

The common octopus is a warm water species that usually lives in the temperate waters of the Mediterranean.