Researchers have developed a model that can calculate individual countries' carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning using observations from space.

The months-long rainy season, or monsoon, that drenches northwestern Mexico each summer, reaching into Arizona and New Mexico and often as far north as Colorado and Northern California, is unlike any monsoon in the world, according to a new analysis by an earth scientist from the University of California, Berkeley.

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba used a sophisticated set of experimental tests, including synchrotron X-ray scattering and quantum computer modeling, to study the effect of temperature on the structure of magnesium carbonate. 

Reliable early NOAA forecasts helped safeguard communities

Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thought

The study is the first to explore how vehicles churn out ammonia across an entire urban center using satellites in space.

A team of international researchers from Canada, Colombia, and Germany has discovered a new marine reptile.

At first glance, Antarctica seems inhospitable. Known for howling gales and extremely cold temperatures, the continent is blanketed with a mile-thick ice shelf. 

Alternative-energy research at Oregon State University is charting a path toward the mass adoption of clean cars powered by direct-ethanol fuel cells.

Just like cars need fuel to run, microorganisms need energy to live.