Using climate models and centuries of paleoclimate data (between 1571 to 2013), researchers looked at moisture patterns and atmospheric wind conditions to assess future fire danger in California.
New estimates from Climate Central estimate that 340 million to 480 million people would be affected by flooding in coastal areas due to sea level rise.
Hielo Patagónico Sur 12 (HPS-12) in Patagonia is believed to be the fastest thinning glacier in the world.
163 years ago, Eunice Newton Foote was the first scientist to research the link between increased carbon dioxide and a warmer atmosphere.
A team of researchers used data from several federal sources and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to produce the first high resolution map of how food moves around the United States.
The protective salt marshes that ring Lake Natron in Tanzania have nurtured the highest concentrations of lesser and greater flamingos in East Africa.
This week’s geography news features learning how to be a climate detective, how fish larvae float across borders, and why native Caribbean fish love hurricanes.
The Forest Service created an artificial environment in a forest in West Virginia to study how acid rain could influence processes in that forest.
Declassified Cold War-era spy satellite photographs have shown how much the melting of hundreds of Himalayan glaciers has accelerated in recent decades.
Vertical forests are buildings that integrate natural resources like trees, shrubs, and food-producing plants into spaces that can also be used as housing or offices.
The spot diametrically opposed to a location on Earth is called the antipode.
