Recyclable plastic containers with the No. 2 designation could become even more popular for manufacturers as plastic milk jugs, dish soap containers and shampoo bottles may soon get an environmental makeover.

Cold winds blowing over the sea helped form rows of cumulus clouds.

The reality of science, statistics, and satellites is that a deep understanding of the causes, effects, and severity of a fire season takes time.

Earth’s atmosphere and climate change are strongly affected by gas exchange between land and atmosphere.

The world’s tropical forests are losing their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – a development that could have serious implications on efforts to forestall climate change.

NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite, which had been offline for about nine months due to a technical glitch, is fully operational again, agency experts said today.

Engineering students at Memorial are designing and building Newfoundland and Labrador’s first Earth observation satellite.

During the past decade, the Marine Institute (MI) built an ocean technology hub for Atlantic Canada.

More than half of the planet’s fresh water is in Antarctica.

Entomologists at UC Riverside have documented that a species of native sweat bee widespread throughout North and South America has a daily routine that makes it a promising pollinator.