Climate

Ecosystems

Let’s learn about coral reefs

Coral reefs are home to many important species. But climate change is stressing corals to the max.

Environment

Let’s learn about hurricanes

Hurricanes are huge, terrifying storms that form over warm ocean waters — and waters are getting warming.

Environment

Let’s learn about rain

People need rain for their crops and their drinking fountains. But there sometimes can be too much of a good thing.

Earth

Did rain put the Kilauea volcano’s lava-making into overdrive?

Scientists share strongly conflicting opinions about why Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano spewed an overabundance of lava in 2018.

Earth

A rainforest once grew near the South Pole

A forest flourished within 1,000 kilometers of the South Pole. That was a while ago, as in millions of years ago.

Physics

Explainer: Rainbows, fogbows and their eerie cousins

Light shining through a water droplet can make more than just a rainbow. A range of other colorful arcs also can develop.

Climate

Climate change drove Australian wildfires to extremes

Australia’s devastating 2019–2020 wildfires were at least 30 percent more likely because of human-caused climate change.

Climate

How to curb the climate heating by contrails

Contrails are narrow clouds left behind in the sky by jets. They add to climate change. But a new study suggests a way to curb their contribution.

Earth

Scientists Say: Meteorology

This word describes the study of processes in the Earth’s atmosphere, including the weather.

Earth

Study appears to rule out volcanic burps as causing dino die-offs

New data on when massive volcanic eruptions happened do not match when the dinosaur mass extinction took place.

Earth

Scientists Say: Glacier

Glaciers are massive ‘rivers of ice’ that move slowly over land. But climate change is shrinking them.

Climate

This scientist wants to motivate you to fight climate change

Getting lost in science fiction helps Shahzeen Attari reimagine what our future could look like.