One of the most productive areas in the world for oil remains rich in the resource, according to the latest USGS assessment.

The biopolymer lignin is a by-product of papermaking and a promising raw material for manufacturing sustainable plastic materials. 

Sceintists are exploring the physical processes that can drive flash droughts, the existing capabilities to predict them and what is needed to establish an effective early warning system.

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) will lead the development of the first Australian satellite designed to predict where bushfires are likely to start and those that will be difficult to contain.

Arctic expedition continues on its next stage as crew and cargo transitions to another ship.

Welcome to meteorological spring!

Though snow droughts kept the ground bare in much of the Northeast, a late-February storm pummeled upstate New York.

Persistent heavy rains in the first two months of 2020 have swelled rivers from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico.

A study that relied on citizen scientists to monitor the health of corals on Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean from 2012 to 2018 found that 35 key coral species remained resilient during a 2014-17 global coral-bleaching event that harmed coral reefs around the world.

A new study by scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues shows for the first time how massive flood events in the eastern North Pacific Ocean—known as the Missoula Floods—may have in part triggered abrupt climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere during the last deglaciation (approximately 19,000–11,700 years ago).