In the late evening hours of August 17, 1969, a catastrophic storm named Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast.

Tropical Storm Krosa continued to erode after it moved into the Sea of Japan and satellite data showed it as a ragged and shapeless storm on August 16, 2019.

Careful evaluation and selection of datasets for scientific research are essential, particularly for poorly observed regions such as Central Asia. 

Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and the University of California synthesised 80 years of tree ring research from tropical forests to pinpoint how well they use water.

A research team, led by the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, recently returning from a groundbreaking, 18-day expedition aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden has made a discovery related to plastics in the Arctic Ocean.

Much of the planet sweltered in unprecedented heat in July, as temperatures soared to new heights in the hottest month ever recorded.

NASA’s Aqua satellite provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with infrared data and cloud top temperature information for Tropical Storm Krosa as it was making landfall in southern Japan.

Putting solar panels on less than 1 percent of the world’s agricultural land could produce enough energy to fulfill global electricity demand, according to a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Florida has lost much of the mangrove forests that once bordered its coasts and estuaries to development and sea-level rise.

During winter 2018 the sea ice in the Bering Sea reached record-low levels thanks to persistent warm southerly winds.