Tropical storms often begin with an impressive display of pyrotechnics, but researchers have largely overlooked the role of lightning strikes in tropical ecosystems.

An endangered aquatic insect that lives in icy streams fed by glaciers might not mind if the water grows warmer due to climate change.

As water levels rise from excessive monsoon rainfall, dam operators discharge water through spillway gates.

NASA’s Aqua satellite obtained visible imagery as Tropical Storm Hanna formed in the Gulf of Mexico and continued to organize.

A new study spells out what that means for the permafrost that underlies about 85% of the state, and the consequences for Earth’s global climate.

By mid-July 2020, rainfall had triggered flooding and landslides that affected millions of people across South and East Asia.

Texas A&M team finds Gulf waters becoming harmful to marine life, commercial fishing could be threatened.

The Salmon River in Idaho, one of the longest free-flowing rivers in the United States, rushes through a geologic wonderland of wooded ridges, eroded bluffs, and stone towers and crags.

A Texas A&M-Galveston professor contributed to a report that shows shark populations have continued to shrink in the last 70 years.

Global warming threatens collapse of most polar bear populations by end of century.