Earth Matters

Turnabout Glacier flows like cake frosting over the rough surface of Canada's Ellesmbere Island.

Through a collaboration with Google, two Earth Observatory image collections were recently featured during the launch of the new Google Earth product.

Glaciologist Kelly Brunt snapped a photo of a new crack that has formed on a glacier in northwestern Greenland.

While the planet faces major environmental challenges, advances in science and engineering offer reason for optimism.

A tweet showing a dark smear on an ice shelf in Antarctica prompted scientists to check into what might have caused it.

Modern “CubeSat” satellites are smaller and more numerous than ever.

Four years ago today, one of the largest non-volcanic landslides in U.S. history began high on the northern wall of Utah's Bingham Canyon mine.

Your challenge for the April puzzler is to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, what the image shows, and why the scene is interesting.

Recent findings published in Nature Geoscience show that roughly 14 percent of all rainfall remains in the uppermost soil layer for as long as three days after a storm.

Early modeling work by Syukura Manabe and Richard Wetherald has proven to be remarkable prescient decades later.