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. 

The ability of the world’s tropical forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere is decreasing, according to a study tracking 300,000 trees over 30 years, published today in Nature.

Wetlands, floodplains and aquatic habitats are some of Utah’s most important ecosystems.

NASA’s Aqua satellite continues to provide forecasters with a visible image ex-tropical cyclone Esther’s remnant clouds and storms, now over the Barkly Region of Australia’s Northern Territory.