Researchers warn that preventable heat-related deaths will continue to rise with continued fossil fuel emissions.

The Auckland region is dotted with distinctive, visible volcanoes and mostly invisible fault lines. Scientists are still trying to understand how they’re connected. Credit: Bruce Hayward/Wikimedia ...

High water levels can cause swift currents that make shipping barges difficult to maneuver and can overwhelm lock and dam systems. Such conditions have become more common since 1960, according to a ...

Today we are witnessing rapid global sea level rise attributable mostly to climate change–driven melting of ice sheets and glaciers and thermal expansion of seawater. However, sea level change also ...

A recent photograph of the Matai'an landslide dam and lake in Taiwan. Image by the Forest Protection Administration of Taiwan. Extremely heavy rainfall associated with super typhoon Ragasa could cause ...

Evapotranspiration is a scientific measurement representing the combined sum of evaporation from the soil (or water) surface to the atmosphere and transpiration from plants, where liquid water inside ...

A translation of this article was made possible by a partnership with Planeteando. Una traducción de este artículo fue posible gracias a una asociación con Planeteando. Earth may have contained fresh ...

Geodetic GPS station P311 atop the Sierra Nevada mountains at Coyote Ridge, near Bishop, Calif., with an elevation of 3,699 meters. This station, along with many others, shows that these mountains are ...

At least 43 people were killed in devastating landslides and debris flows in northern China. Planet Labs images provide an insight into this disaster. It is extremely challenging to keep up with the ...

A glass thread strung along the bottom of a fjord captured the entire process of calving, from the cracking of ice to the breakup of bergs.

A translation of this article was made possible by a partnership with Planeteando. Una traducción de este artículo fue posible gracias a una asociación con Planeteando. On 21 December 1994, Claus ...

Bathymetry image of Brothers Seamount and caldera, an undersea volcano about 3 kilometers in diameter off the coast of New Zealand. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's autonomous underwater vehicle ...