On 28 July, more than 170 researchers sent a letter to National Science Foundation leaders and Congress, urging them to reconsider the decision to terminate the lease of the Nathaniel B. Palmer ...

The stories that follow highlight the journeys of scientists who have been blown off course, let the winds carry them, and stood tall in the breeze. When, from the age of 11, one scientist knew ...

Scientists surveyed a trio of estuaries in pursuit of a missing source of oceanic dissolved black carbon.

One new study identifies a 17% increase in the destructive potential of the strongest nor’easters, while another bolsters links between Arctic ice melt and dangerous blizzards.

Forty-six percent of tree species in Mesoamerica are threatened with extinction. Researchers hope a new regional study will inform targeted conservation strategies.

New 3D imaging techniques show hidden patterns of stress that help explain how and why rocks break.

A new model accounting for the role of bubbles in air-sea gas exchanges suggests that ocean carbon uptake is more variable than previously thought.

A group of EPA scientists who signed an open letter voicing their dissent to Trump administration policies have been placed on administrative leave.

On 3 June, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a 940-page spending bill that provides trillions of dollars in tax cuts, boosts the fossil fuel industry, and dismantles incentives for clean ...