The network of narrow stream valleys that flow off this towering volcano in central Mexico are sometimes used as roads—or convenient places to set up soccer pitches or sift for building materials.

The team analyzed more than 250,000 scenes from the Landsat satellite missions.

National Geodetic Survey damage assessment imagery available online.

NOAA-funded CU Boulder project seeks alternatives to snow-based drought forecasting in a changing climate

Natural disasters alone are not enough to motivate local communities to engage in climate change mitigation or adaptation, a new study from Oregon State University found.

Large-scale infrastructure investments in Latin American countries threaten efforts to protect tropical forests and mitigate climate change, according to a new analysis published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

After making landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, as a category 4 storm, Hurricane Laura continued to move northward over western Louisiana.

On an expedition to the Central Andean Plateau, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and colleagues were astounded to find a huge fossil tree buried in the cold, grassy plain.

Study revealed the, sometimes, stark regional variability in ocean temperature extremes much more variable than coarser global climate models.

More than 80 per cent of the Indonesian rainforest, mangroves and peatlands most vulnerable to being cleared for palm oil production is completely unprotected by the country’s Forest Moratorium, according to new research.