Commercially important seafood species are at greater risk of microplastic contamination depending how they clump together in the marine environment, new research suggests.

New CIRES study: Multiple factors joined forces to devastate the Great Barrier Reef in 2016.

Forty years ago today, iconic Mount St. Helens erupted in southwestern Washington state in the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in U.S. history.

In May 1980, a satellite watched the mountain violently erupt; satellites over the next forty years watched it recover.

Clouds formed over rural areas and the cities but are noticeably absent above Guanabara Bay and the ocean due to the mechanisms of cloud formation.

A layer of marine stratocumulus clouds off the west coast of Africa displayed some particularly complex wave patterns.

Prior to European settlement, wetlands, lakes and streams were the major landscape features of the Chicago region.

New research from The Australian National University (ANU) could help protect our plants and animals from extinction, by allowing scientists to predict which currently thriving species might be at risk in the future.

Glaciers are retreating in Glacier National Park and across the globe due to climate change.

In almost every region of the world where hurricanes form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger.