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View from space: Mississippi River flooding

Two satellite images show the contrast between the flooded Mississippi River this month and the same area last year. Check out the difference!

Editors of EarthSky

January 20, 2016

Extreme weather lowers global crop yield

Researchers found that extreme heat and drought between 1964 and 2007 account for about a 10% decline in global cereal crop production.

Benjamin D. Duval

January 18, 2016

Lifeform of the week: Puffer fish

Killer sushi, stoned dolphins, and zombies; the puffer fish is an animal steeped in scandal.

Alex Reshanov

January 13, 2016

2015 worst US wildfire year on record

Wildfires burned more than 10 million acres of land in the United States in 2015, a year marked by intense drought across much of the west.

Deanna Conners

January 12, 2016

What to expect from El Niño

The third-recorded super El Niño is underway. Top climate expert Kevin Trenberth reports.

EarthSky Voices

January 10, 2016

Gorgeous timelapse of California skies

Southern California night skies ... looking from inside massive sea caves and across miles of inland desert. Wonder Endlessly timelapse by Jack Fusco.

Eleanor Imster

January 9, 2016

Four new elements added to periodic table

The new elements - elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 - complete the periodic table's seventh row and make science textbooks around the world instantly out-of-date.

EarthSky Voices

January 6, 2016

New glimpse of geology under Antarctic ice

Using technology built to withstand the harsh winters, scientists have managed to map the volcanos, rifts, and basins hidden under West Antarctica's ice sheet.

Deanna Conners

January 5, 2016

What is the Anthropocene?

Soon, scientists will decide whether the word Anthropocene should be formally added to the Geologic Time Scale. It indicates a world shaped by human beings.

EarthSky Voices

January 4, 2016