Air pollution is the world’s leading environmental risk factor, and causes more than nine million deaths per year. 

Earth’s tropics are expanding poleward and that expansion is driven by human-caused changes to the ocean, according to new research.

In their first follow-up to a high-profile 2017 study which showed microbes in Antarctica have a unique ability to essentially live on air, researchers from UNSW Sydney have now discovered this process occurs in soils across the world’s three poles.

Organisms need to work together to adapt to climate change, especially in the presence of competitors, suggests a new study published today in eLife.

Extreme weather events such as heat waves and drought affect the presence of certain bird species.

A new product that alerts pilots to clouds, icy conditions and dangerously cold temperatures is tapping into NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System’s satellites for the critical data it needs.

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of the landfall of Tropical Storm Higos on Aug. 18.

Lightning is a random act of nature that can strike at any time of the year, most often during summer months.

NOAA and World View Enterprises are teaming up to take a uniquely detailed look at the composition of Earth’s stratosphere.

The researchers established conclusively that penguins arose in the cool coastal regions of Australia and New Zealand, not frigid Antarctica, as many scientists thought.