A low-pressure area strengthened quickly and became Tropical Storm Cristina in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and infrared imagery from NASA revealed the powerful thunderstorms fueling that intensification.

Sediments flowing into the bay from the Río Cauto have built up an impressive delta and even helped bury a reef.

Linear features in the Kulunda region of southwestern Russia look as if a large claw has scraped the land surface.

Deserts of the U.S. Southwest are extreme habitats for most plants, but, remarkably, microscopic green algae live there that are extraordinarily tolerant of dehydration.

Columbia engineers demonstrate that, as temperatures rise, northern high latitude regions will not become more conducive to vegetation growth—light is still essential to end of season photosynthesis

Palm trees are more than five times more numerous in tropical forests in the Americas than in comparable Asian and African forests, a new study shows.

In nearly every part of the world heatwaves have been increasing in frequency and duration, a new study led by UNSW climate scientists shows.

The latest tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean formed one day ago and was already being battered by wind shear. 

New research provides the first direct evidence for the Gulf Stream blender effect, identifying a new mechanism of mixing water across the swift-moving current. 

The New Siberian Islands were the birthplace of the MOSAiC floe: the sea ice in which the research vessel Polarstern is now drifting through the Arctic was formed off the coast of the archipelago, which separates the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea to the north of Siberia, in December 2018.