Like the circulatory system that helps move blood, carry nutrients and filter waste in the human body, the planet’s river networks are in a very real sense similar conduits that help keep the planet alive.

Drought conditions intensified across the nation

Scientists found warming conditions in the Pacific (El Niño) resulted in low pressure anomalies in the Gulf of Mexico, and high pressure anomalies that extended into the Caribbean Sea from the tropical Atlantic.

A long-term study of Hawaiian coral species provides a surprisingly optimistic view of how they might survive warmer and more acidic oceans resulting from climate change.

Researchers using multiple high-resolution satellite observations have found that carbon loss has more than doubled since 2001 due to forest clearance across the tropics.

The soils and vegetation of Patagonia's fjord regions form a unique and highly sensitive ecosystem that is closely linked to marine ecosystems, sediment deposition and carbon storage in the ocean.

Antarctic fish have adapted over millennia to survive in the freezing temperatures of the Southern Ocean.

An instrument designed to measure tree height can also distinguish corn from other crops.

Continued anthropogenic climate change will increasingly enhance the odds of long, widespread and severe megadroughts

The Amazon rainforest is likely losing resilience, data analysis from high-resolution satellite images suggests.