An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this nadir photograph of the Salta Province in northern Argentina while in orbit over South America.

Each year in January and February, satellites begin to detect waves of smoke and fire in Southeast Asia, particularly in highland forests in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand.

A broader past could mean a brighter future for Canada lynx in the U.S., according to recent research.

Over the past 30 years, Australia’s Tasmanian devil population has been afflicted with an infectious cancer that has pushed the species to near extinction.

Iron screws and other so-called ferromagnetic materials are made up of atoms with electrons that act like little magnets.

Manganese in the soil of boreal forests has been found to work against the carbon storage capacity of these crucial northern habitats.

The source of pollutants in rivers and freshwater lakes can now be identified using a comprehensive new water quality analysis, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge and Trent University, Canada.

New research from the Universities of Oxford and Exeter has revealed that plant species recommended as “pollinator friendly”* in Europe begin flowering up to a month too late in the spring to effectively contribute to bee conservation.

Though of touted as a fix for climate change, planting trees could, in some regions, make warming more severe, a new study finds.

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg warn that today's hunting quotas of about 3,000 animals pose a risk to the long-term survival of the grey seal in the Baltic Sea.