Cattle help and hinder the environment in complex ways.

Solar and wind farms are popping up around the country to lower carbon emissions, and these renewables also have another important effect: keeping more water in the ground.

Penn State researchers found in a new study that combining data from new geostationary satellites and Doppler radar provided the best forecasts of a supercell thunderstorms event in 2017 in the Midwest.

Earth-observing satellites capture smoke plumes sweeping through India.

Until recent decades, researchers could be confident that their numerous studies about permafrost told the tale about this frozen phenomenon.

New genetic research has identified fin whales in the northern Pacific Ocean as a separate subspecies, reflecting a revolution in marine mammal taxonomy as scientists unravel the genetics of enormous animals otherwise too large to fit into laboratories.

A global coalition of scientists led by William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf of Oregon State University says “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without deep and lasting shifts in human activities that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and other factors related to climate change.

Red deer on a Scottish island are providing scientists with some of the first evidence that wild animals are evolving to give birth earlier in the year as the climate warms.

When NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean, water vapor data provided information about the intensity of Tropical Cyclone Maha.

Typhoon Halong continued to strengthen and has become a super typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.