New research reveals how penguins have dealt with more than a century of human impacts in Antarctica and why some species are winners or losers in this rapidly changing ecosystem.

Sometimes, pollution is blatantly obvious: the iridescent slick of an oil spill, goopy algae washing up on a beach or black smoke belching from a smokestack.

Ancient flying reptiles known as pterosaurs were much more diverse than originally thought, according to a new study by an international group of paleontologists.

When Vivian Mushahwar first applied to grad school, she wrote about her idea to fix paralysis by rewiring the spinal cord.

If you can find an efficient way to alter the chemical makeup of a surface then you can potentially enable a wide range of applications.

Rising waters are swallowing up another island in Chesapeake Bay.

A winter storm brought flash flooding, heavy snow, and hurricane-force winds to the Pacific Northwest.

An undersea eruption at Lateiki Island in late October 2019 has brought new life to an older island in the Tonga chain.

Since 2009, NASS has drawn on Landsat data to monitor dozens of crops, including corn, wheat, soy and cotton in the lower 48 states as part of NASS’s Cropland Data Layer program.

Biodiversity across the globe could be in a worse state than previously thought as current biodiversity assessments fail to take into account the long-lasting impact of abrupt land changes, a new study has warned.