A new study reveals how, by cultivating fertile soil for farming, ancient Amazonians locked away thousands of tons of carbon that have stayed in the ground for centuries.

People experiencing a high degree of social vulnerability are also more exposed to wildfires in Oregon and Washington as wildfire risk increases, a new study shows.

Imagine if France, Germany, and Spain were completely blanketed in forests — and then all those trees were quickly chopped down.

The bright lights of big cities could be causing an evolutionary adaptation for smaller eyes in some birds, a new study indicates.

While summer monsoons are well researched and understood, there is currently very limited understanding of winter monsoons – especially of how they have changed during periods when there has been no data available from weather stations.

The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the Amazon’s land is equally rich.

On her morning walk to school, a high schooler notices a patch of greenery in her neighbor’s yard.

This September, after traveling billions of miles through our solar system, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will cruise past Earth with an extraordinary delivery. 

The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission is able to measure ocean features, like El Niño, closer to a coastline than previous space-based missions.

In the summer of 2022, one of Tyrol's largest glaciers experienced its most significant loss of mass on record.