The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as a result of global warming—with serious ... where it covers around a quarter of the land surface, mainly north of the Arctic Circle.

The authors have undertaken a useful study to update an existing niche model of highly pathogenic avian influenza. However, there are issues regarding the conceptualisation of the ecological niche of ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...

A team of researchers have now modelled what will happen to the planet, climate and humans if this asteroid crashes on Earth ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Weather and climate models are both governed by the same physical processes. But that’s where most of the similarities end.

The findings identified that warm and cold spring in the Tibetan Plateau leads to wet or dry summers in Southern China respectively.

NOAA operates fleets of satellites, sensors on airplanes and ocean-going buoys, as well as radar, providing the data used by ...