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A 35-year satellite altimetry record lets scientists hold this year's El Niño up against its strongest predecessors.

Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.

The powerful low-pressure system formed over the North Atlantic out of the remnants of Hurricane Isaias.

Human activities have become intertwined with how water is distributed across the continents. A new study brings their effects into…

Fall color covers the forested slopes of Bieszczady National Park, while patches of polonina, a type of high-mountain meadow, have…

High-definition images of nighttime lights show where the hurricane knocked out power along the Florida Panhandle and how quickly the…

During El Niño, a cascade of fires across the tropics begins in equatorial Asia and continues in the central and…

Though it remained offshore, the storm lashed coastal areas with high winds and flooding—and produced remarkable rippling patterns in the…

If the thought of extraterrestrial objects crashing into Earth weren’t creepy enough, behold Australia’s Spider Crater.


