On Thursday, NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information about major air pollutants over North America.

Getting results from a blood test can take anywhere from one day to a week, depending on what a test is targeting. The same goes for tests of water pollution and food contamination.

The risk of fatal heatwaves has risen sharply over the past 20 years.

In certain trees, soils can form along branches and can support varied plant and animal life.

A relatively simple, inexpensive method of filtering urban stormwater runoff dramatically boosted survival of newly hatched coho salmon in an experimental study.

Like every industry, modern farming relies heavily on plastics.

Extreme floods and severe droughts on the Amazon River have occurred more frequently in the last 40 years.

A new analysis from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has identified the top factors accounting for yield variability in processing sweet corn (used for canned and frozen products), including one within the control of processors.

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego have developed new deep learning models to continue improving efforts for early wildfire detection. 

A remote part of the Indian Ocean is a hotspot for whales and dolphins, prompting researchers to call for a new protected area.