Global climate change will affect fish sizes in unpredictable ways and, consequently, impact complex food webs in our oceans, a new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-led study has shown.

Study highlights the importance of different organisms as Earth becomes hotter and drier.

Twin satellites are assessing the state of soil moisture and groundwater on the continent and around the world.

This lake in northwest Russia is small compared to Lake Baikal, yet it still manages to make a stately appearance in satellite imagery.

What do chocolate, migratory birds, flood control and pandas have in common? 

Scientists at Caltech and Occidental College have discovered a methane-fueled symbiosis between worms and bacteria at the bottom of the sea, shedding new light on the ecology of deep-sea environments.

Extreme rainfall has become increasingly common in metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil. 

Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s have helped scientists accurately estimate the age of whale sharks, the biggest fish in the seas, according to a Rutgers-led study.

Scientists know that coronaviruses, including the SARS-CoV-19 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can remain infectious for days — or even longer — in sewage and drinking water. 

Before there were farms in southwest Michigan, there were prairies.