Earth-observing satellites capture smoke plumes sweeping through India.

Elevated greenhouse gas levels and human activity - such as burning forests to clear land - have caused a decline of moisture in the air over the Amazon.

Satellite imagery reveals how certain parts of Amazon were more resilient to fires.

Until recent decades, researchers could be confident that their numerous studies about permafrost told the tale about this frozen phenomenon.

A global coalition of scientists led by William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf of Oregon State University says “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without deep and lasting shifts in human activities that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and other factors related to climate change.

Red deer on a Scottish island are providing scientists with some of the first evidence that wild animals are evolving to give birth earlier in the year as the climate warms.

When NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean, water vapor data provided information about the intensity of Tropical Cyclone Maha.

Typhoon Halong continued to strengthen and has become a super typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Mitch Aide, a tropical ecologist based in Puerto Rico, thinks we should listen to the earth a lot more than we do now — and not just listen to it, but record and store its sounds on a massive scale. 

A global team of scientists including Dr Thomas Newsome at the University of Sydney and international colleagues has warned that “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without deep and lasting shifts in human activities that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and other factors related to climate change.