The rapidly growing desalination industry produces water for drinking and for agriculture in the world’s arid coastal regions.

Visible imagery from NASA’s Terra satellite showed a weaker Tropical Storm Gelena far from land areas, and in the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean.

A team of British and American researchers, co-led by the University of Cambridge, has measured how much the McMurdo ice shelf in Antarctica flexes in response to the filling and draining of meltwater lakes on its surface.

The world’s oceans could harbor an unpleasant surprise for global warming, based on new research that shows how naturally occurring carbon gases trapped in reservoirs atop the seafloor escaped to superheat the planet in prehistory.

Tropical Cyclone Oma continued to move southeast in the Southern Pacific Ocean, and continue affecting Vanuatu. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image of the storm.

Images of extensive flooding or fire-ravaged communities help us see how climate change is accelerating the severity of natural disasters. 

A set of technologies that is expected to have its first results four years from now is designed to resolve one of the world’s greatest oil and gas exploration challenges today: carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emission in the atmosphere. 

Sea-level rise, sediment starvation and other environmental woes pose increasing threats to coastal wetlands worldwide. 

The effects of climate change are especially obvious in arid environments where resources are scarce and subject to seasonal availability. 

NASA's InSight lander has placed its second instrument on the Martian surface.