The researchers found more than 500 pieces of opaque black “space glass” in varying shapes in Brazil. Credit: Álvaro Crósta For the first time in South America and only the sixth time in history, ...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate and Earth science research laboratories, is “under attack,” a new lawsuit alleges. Credit: Richard Johnson, Flickr, CC ...

The Cerrado savanna in Brazil is the second-largest biome in South America and stores as much carbon as 20% of the Amazon rainforest, according to new research. Credit: Andre Dib The Cerrado savanna ...

Sediment cores collected by instruments such as this one on the back of R/V Neil Armstrong shed light on how the North Atlantic Ocean of the last ice age circulated. Credit: Alice Carter-Champion A ...

Geothermal activity near Hveragerði, Iceland, has created a natural laboratory where researchers can study how ecosystems, including microbes and plans, respond to long-term warming. Credit: Sara ...

In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump worked across agencies to roll back practical and political momentum to address the climate crisis. Experts say the array of administration ...

New research found that humid heat can be most extreme in the Middle East and North Africa. Such regions are vulnerable to this and other effects of climate change, including 2021 flooding in Sudan, ...

Ice caves like this one at Erebus Glacier Tongue in Antarctica inspired the design of ice domes modeled for use on Mars. Credit: Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps As Earth’s population continues to ...

Clouds on Venus race across the sky at speeds of more than 100 meters per second, driven by incompletely understood atmospheric dynamics. Credit: Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 Imagine the catastrophic ...

Aurorae such as the southern lights, seen here over Antarctica, show the geomagnetic field in action. Some areas of the field, which shields Earth’s surface from charged solar particles, are stronger ...

The Amazon saw its worst wildfire season in decades in 2024. New research examines the consequences. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA Wildfires in the rainy, humid Amazon might once have seemed unlikely, but ...