Cornell wind energy scientists have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds for all parts of the world –  to help engineers select the turbines in any given region and accelerate the development of sustainable energy.

The start of California’s rainy season has been getting progressively later in recent decades, and now begins a month after it did just 60 years ago, shifting from November to December, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. 

Australians love their beaches, and now a new study also confirms the broad appeal of other coastal assets such as tidal wetlands and protected areas.

Considering the greater good by social distancing during a pandemic turns out to have an attractive personal benefit: A new study has found that staying away from others also reduces an individual person’s chances of contracting COVID-19.

Chemical manufacturers frequently use toxic solvents such as alcohols and benzene to make products like pharmaceuticals and plastics. 

The tropical cyclone made landfall near the coast city of Beira, bringing heavy rains to the central region.

When drought hits the Horn of Africa, it's a threat to lives and livelihoods

A NASA airborne study has returned to the field for a second year of science flights to advance the accuracy of short- and long-term climate models.

Launched in 2007, the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, mission is the first detailed exploration of Earth's unique and elusive clouds that are literally on the "edge of space."

In the arid Mojave Desert, small burrowing mammals like the cactus mouse, the kangaroo rat and the white-tailed antelope squirrel are weathering the hotter, drier conditions triggered by climate change much better than their winged counterparts, finds a new study published today in Science.