Researchers have discovered why the tropics and a handful of other areas across the globe have become the most biodiverse places on the planet.

A new study which provides a global estimate of rock cover on the Earth’s glaciers has revealed that the expanse of rock debris on glaciers, a factor that has been ignored in models of glacier melt and sea level rise, could be significant.

Ecologists at the University of Turku, Finland, have discovered that the food hoards pygmy owls collect in nest-boxes ("freezers") for winter rot due to high precipitation caused by heavy autumn rains and if the hoarding has been initiated early in the autumn.

Clean-up devices that collect waste from the ocean surface won't solve the plastic pollution problem, a new study shows.

Satellites can spot some blooms earlier, resulting in significant savings on health care, lost work hours, and other economic costs.

As the wildfire rages in Southern California, an Earth-observing instrument aboard the International Space Station was able to measure its heat and dark smoke plume.

Sea trout numbers are declining in Norway and scientists don’t know why.

On Aug. 3, Warnings and Watches stretched from Florida to Maine.

Hagupit is forecast to make landfall later today, Aug. 3, south of Shanghai and curve north then northeast.

Rainfall maps with high temporal resolution derived from the attenuation of commercial microwave links (CMLs) by precipitation.