Butterflies are often considered bellwether species for climate change, and to retain the cooler climates they need for their life cycles, species around the world have been shifting their habitats ...

This conceptual illustration shows the contrasting responses of a low-latitude highlands ecosystem in China to a drought versus a heat wave. The image at left depicts the severe ecosystem collapse and ...

The Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research includes entirely closing the center’s Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. Credit: C. Calvin, University ...

New research examined the geochemistry of magma crystals from the mostly submarine stratovolcano Bogoslof in Alaska to better forecast future eruptions. Credit: T. Keith/U.S. Geological Survey via ...

Pilots prepare to fly microbial sampling systems into smoke from high-intensity crown fires in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. Credit: Krista Bonfantine, University of Idaho Extreme wildfire events ...

In the Yukon River Delta, snow and ice are essential for Indigenous communities, providing travel routes and supporting hunting, fishing, and cultural practices. Credit: NASA image courtesy Jeff ...

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says. Pictures of a rocky outcrop snapped ...

Clouds on Venus race across the sky at speeds of more than 100 meters per second, driven by incompletely understood atmospheric dynamics. Credit: Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 Imagine the catastrophic ...

Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news that impacts science and scientists today. A yearly analysis of climate change’s progress and effects ...

Improvements in subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting (S2S), which projects weather 2 weeks to 2 months in advance, could support more informed decisions about when to plant and irrigate crops, among ...

Storm Agnes is seen over the Bay of Biscay offshore western Europe on 27 September 2023 in this image captured by the Flexible Combined Imager on the Meteosat Third Generation satellite. Credit: ...

A new study mapped the ages of forests around the world. Forests in the Congo Basin, as seen in this image, were found to be younger at the end of the study than they were at the beginning. Credit: ...