In May and June of most years, NASA satellites typically begin to detect large numbers of wildland fires throughout the Top End and Arnhem Land regions of Australia’s Northern Territory. 

A new technique based on weather data is the first to successfully predict caseloads.

An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The body can notice stress before the conscious brain — and that’s no lie.

Dan Gillikin surveyed the view from his front window and didn’t like what he saw.

U seismologists are learning what continental mantle earthquakes, occurring far below Earth's crust, reveal about what lies beneath northeast Utah and southwest Wyoming.

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods.

In mid-April 2026, Super Typhoon Sinlaku churned across the North Pacific Ocean and brought heavy rain and flooding to the Mariana Islands. 

From late May into early June 2026, a broad, slow-spinning storm churned north-northwest over the Philippine Sea toward southern Japan. 

Diminishing periods of snow cover in northern forests, shortened by climate change, are poised to disrupt a delicate balance in some of the planet’s most climate-sensitive regions, according to new research from McMaster University, VU Amsterdam, and the Woodwell Climate Research Center.