Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they ...

As dangerously high temperatures sweep across parts of the United States and southern Europe this week, emergency workers are racing to mitigate the public health risk of heatstroke.

Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long ...

Japan's rainy season ended at the earliest date on record in the country's western regions, meteorologists said Friday, as ...

To make advances in using microbes to sustainably produce materials, it is necessary to find new molecular tools, or ...

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a "mini halo"—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy ...

A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology and led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman ...

New Jerseyans continue to give a somewhat split assessment on the direction of the Garden State, and pocketbook issues top ...

NOAA and its research partners are forecasting a mild to moderate harmful algal bloom (HAB) in western Lake Erie this summer.

A new study, published in Nature Nanotechnology and featured on the journal's front cover this month, has uncovered insights ...

When an extreme weather event occurs, the probability or risk of other events can often increase, leading to what researchers ...