Researchers with the University of North Carolina’s Institute of Marine Sciences have studied tropical cyclones that have impacted North Carolina…
An iceberg the size of Greater London recently broke off the from Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
The Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission is designed to monitor pollutants entering the atmosphere because of major forest fires.
The 'Best American Travel Writing 2019' features pieces on either dangerous places or the pursuit of the exotic as well-informed…
An artist from Portugal named Vanessa Barragão has created a unique map tapestry of the world inspired by nature.
In 2018, a large bloom of seaweed (Sargassum) formed a belt that extended for 8,850 kilometers - from the west…
A recent report published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed satellite data that showed Antarctica’s rapid…
This week's geography news features learning how to be a climate detective, how fish larvae float across borders, and why…
In August of 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that South Dakota had 3.9 million “prevented planting” acres.
Peary’s Arctic Quest: Untold Stories from Robert E. Peary’s North Pole Expeditions is both a rigorous scholarly work and a…
The Forest Service created an artificial environment in a forest in West Virginia to study how acid rain could influence…
Declassified Cold War-era spy satellite photographs have shown how much the melting of hundreds of Himalayan glaciers has accelerated in…