In a major step forward for monitoring the biodiversity of marine systems, a new study published today in Environmental DNA details how MBARI researchers are using autonomous underwater robots to sample environmental DNA (eDNA). 

Vibrant coral reefs teeming with marine life are diminishing throughout the Caribbean as global temperatures rise.

A massive, early season wildfire that continues to burn in northern New Mexico generated a pyrocumulonimbus cloud.

The instrument aboard the space station documents blistering temperatures in urban areas around Delhi during the historic heat wave on the Indian subcontinent.

Plane-mounted laser imaging has allowed scientists to map the size, shape, and density of trees in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, revealing how low- and moderate-intensity burns make forests more resilient to larger blazes.

A new map shows the height of Earth’s forests, from stubby saplings to timbers towering more than 50 meters tall, across the entire land surface.

Asia saw its warmest April on record

Deep sand movements stirred up by intense storms may offset some of the impacts of coastal erosion caused by sea level rise.

Despite the rapid melting of ice in many parts of Antarctica during the second half of the 20th century, researchers have found that the floating ice shelves which skirt the eastern Antarctic Peninsula have undergone sustained advance over the past 20 years.

Although vegetation is not the only type of debris caused by a hurricane, it is an important predictor of where roads will be blocked.