In the Yukon River Delta, snow and ice are essential for Indigenous communities, providing travel routes and supporting hunting, fishing, and cultural practices. Credit: NASA image courtesy Jeff ...

Around the world, phytoplankton in the upper ocean help to cycle key nutrients and regulate Earth’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide. These photosynthesizing organisms rely on dissolved iron as an ...

Satellite images are revealing the scale of the destruction in Sri Lanka caused by landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah at the end of November 2025. At the end of November 2025, a “weak” tropical ...

In the coming decades, climate change is likely to lead to a loss of sea ice in and an influx of warmer water to the Arctic Ocean, affecting the ocean’s vertical circulation. Brown et al. recently ...

A new community science project brings together the Cowichan Tribes, the provincial government of British Columbia, and scientists to study the Xwulqw'selu Sta'lo' (Koksilah River). Credit: David ...

New research analyzes the influence of changes in rainfall to Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Credit: Richard Mortel/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The Serengeti is one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged Uranus, its rings, and several of its 29 moons with its Near-Infrared Camera on 18 December 2023. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The solar system’s oddball ...

The aftermath of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand. Image copyright Planet, captured on 22 and 23 November 2025, used with permission. Over the weekend, Planet captured ...

Ancient Mars boasted abundant water, but the cold and dry conditions of today make liquid water on the Red Planet seem far less probable. However, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere ...

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says. Pictures of a rocky outcrop snapped ...