CU Boulder researchers, >500 international colleagues launch yearlong journey to study Arctic climate.

Firefighters in command centers worldwide routinely use data streams from NASA satellites to plan firefighting efforts. But those data are only the tip of the iceberg of NASA resources on fire.

NASA estimated extreme rainfall over eastern Texas from the remnants of Tropical Depression Imelda, using an algorithm that incorporates data from satellites and observations.

Observational data from radiosondes deployed in Antarctica improve the forecasting accuracy for severe Antarctic cyclones, according to a Japanese research team led by the Kitami Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan.

When second-year biology student Emie Woodburn talks about the University of Victoria’s scientific diving program, she recalls a childhood reflex of pinching her nose under water to avoid flooding her nostrils.

The largest effort ever to tag and track shortfin mako sharks off the West Coast has found that they can travel nearly 12,000 miles in a year.

Today, a team of U.S. and Norwegian scientists published new laboratory research findings that show how an Arctic fish species can be seriously affected by small amounts of crude oil released into surface waters.

During the week of Sept. 23, the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory, in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service and Mount Hood National Forest, will install three new volcano monitoring stations on the flanks of Mount Hood.

Over the past few years, offshore wind farms have emerged across the world as a viable source of energy.  

Every year, the United States experiences dozens, if not hundreds, of natural hazard events that vary in size and impact from the incredibly large (like a hurricane or wide-spread flood) to the rather localized (like a sinkhole in a backyard)