North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over the past four decades, and their wings have gotten a bit longer. 

A new study from Swansea University has given new insights into how the greenhouse gas methane is being produced in the surface waters of lakes, which should signal a rethink on the global methane cycle.

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the South China Sea and provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical Storm Kammuri on Dec. 4.

It’s hard to find a place in the U.S. that isn’t impacted by wildfires and smoke.

As the planet warms due to excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a solution for drawing down that carbon – or at least a major part of it – lies silently below us.

Himalayan glaciers have largely retreated, and lakes now cover the area where the glacier tongue was in earlier times.

Researchers from Tohoku University have discovered a new petit-spot volcano at the oldest section of the Pacific Plate.

Analyzing decades of records, the researchers discovered that the accompanying rainfall tended to be more severe after a hurricane had abated to the category of a tropical storm.

Many East Coast woodlands along the East Coast are gradually turning to ghost forests, as saltwater rises up to 5 millimeters a year in some places, killing tree roots.

The relationship between aerosols (particulate matter) and their cooling effect on the Earth due to the formation of clouds is more than twice as strong as was previously thought.