A new U.S. Geological Survey coastal change forecast predicts sandy beaches in Louisiana and Mississippi may be heavily damaged by Zeta, which is expected to make landfall Oct. 28 as a hurricane.

A team of researchers say they have pinpointed the source – methane-producing microorganisms – for large amounts of methane emitted from rainforest-turned-cattle-pasture in Brazil’s Amazon region.

In a new national effort, scientists led by Jeff Blanchard, biology, have received a two-year, renewable resource grant from the Department of Energy (DOE).

The state of mature ecosystems must be taken into account before launching massive reforestation plans in sub-Saharan Africa, according to geo-ecologist Julie Aleman, a visiting researcher in the geography department of Université de Montréal.

Carbon dioxide and methane are the biggest drivers of global warming related to human activities. 

Extreme heat may deepen educational inequities for students around the world, according to new research coauthored by Patrick Behrer, a postdoctdoral scholar in Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment, Jisung Park at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and Joshua Goodman at Boston University. 

The blaze grew 140,000 acres in 24 hours to become the second largest fire in Colorado history.

NASA has accumulated about 40 petabytes (PB) of Earth science data, which is about twice as much as all of the information stored by the Library of Congress.

Recent numerous storms and hurricanes have eaten away much of the state’s 367-mile coastline

As the ice in the clouds melts into droplets, they reflect more sunlight. But in the end there is no more ice left to melt.