Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, according to a new study from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Such lake drainages may affect sea-level rise, with implications for coastal communities.

Three Landsat images show the expansion of massive salt evaporation projects in and around the Dead Sea, over the span of 39 years.

Marine researchers have linked the collapse of Larval oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon to an increase in ocean acidification.

Scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut are smaller than originally thought.

Global warming and climate change may initially make the grass greener, but not for long, according to new research results.

Watch an animation of the fierce April 3, 2012 Texas thunderstorms that was created from satellite data.

Researchers predict that without changes to calories from eating and activity, more than one in five young people will be obese by 2020

Researchers found that delivering chemotherapy drugs with nanobubbles was up to 30 times more deadly to cancer cells than traditional drug treatment

Weather extremes - droughts, floods, and heat waves - on the rise worldwide over the past 50 years, are linked to climate change, according to Chris Field.

The rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide - a greenhouse gas - is largely the result of the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers, according to Berkeley chemists.