A new map shows the height of Earth’s forests, from stubby saplings to timbers towering more than 50 meters tall, across the entire land surface.

Although vegetation is not the only type of debris caused by a hurricane, it is an important predictor of where roads will be blocked.

Water often falls from the sky and is stored in mountains across the U.S. as snow before it melts and flows down to urban and rural communities.

The massive Jan. 15, 2022, eruption of the Hunga submarine volcano in the South Pacific Ocean created a variety of atmospheric wave types, including booms heard 6,200 miles away in Alaska.

Planting a tree seems like a generally good thing to do for the environment.

Currently, treatment systems let, on average, half of the emerging contaminants found in wastewater go through. 

Researchers from Japan pave the way for a clean energy economy with low-cost, cadmium-free, thin-film solar cells.

A team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers led by physics and astronomy professor Charles Gammie is part of a large international collaboration that unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. 

The microlayer between ocean and atmosphere is at the center of a new research group led by Oldenburg scientists.

Working outdoors during periods of extreme heat can cause discomfort, heat stress, or heat illnesses – all growing concerns for people who live and work in Southwestern cities like Las Vegas, where summer temperatures creep higher each year.