Plants the world over are absorbing about 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to a new assessment developed by scientists. The research, detailed in the journal Nature, is ...

A few times this year, we've talked about the pulse that slowly moves around the Earth alternately enhancing and suppressing tropical activity called the MJO. It was in an enhancement phase in ...

Bird Conservation in Colombia The tropical forests of Chocó, Colombia, are dense and alive. A place where mist often hangs in ...

Nairobi is about as far south of the equator as Singapore is north, and unsurprisingly, it’s pretty much a mirror image. The shortest day (in June) has 12 hours, 2 minutes, and 51 seconds of daylight.

A recent study using automatic wildlife cameras across three continents has shed light on how the moon's phases affect the ...

Extreme Weather Maps: Track the possibility of extreme weather in the places that are important to you. Heat Safety: Extreme ...

For years, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — a spacecraft circling the Red Planet — has seen white material lining dry ...

Plants, trees, and soil absorbed almost no net CO2 last year. If this continues, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

Earth’s climate system continues to rapidly deteriorate, with global temperatures on track to far overshoot 2° Celsius (3.6° ...