A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

NOAA partners with private sector, academia, nonprofits and many others around the world to ensure that everyone has the best information to produce the most robust weather forecasts. Private weather ...

Andrew Babbin tries to pack light for work trips. Along with the travel essentials, though, he also brings a roll each of ...

The world has watched in horror ... Regions that used to enjoy a gentler Mediterranean climate, as shown in the map below, are turning into dry subtropical zones. As the shift continues, winter ...

Another invisible line is the Qinling-Huaihe line, which separates China into two distinct regions: the humid and subtropical south and the dry, temperate north.

The highest potential for naturally occurring hydrogen is in the Midcontinent Rift system, which runs through central parts ...

The latest edition of our Top 10 in Data Journalism column also highlights the risks of nuclear war, drought in the Amazon, ...

The fire is happening while Western North Carolina is under an increased fire danger warning due to gusty winds, making it ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Maximum, minimum or mean temperature maps For a daily period ... community in order to maintain consistency in the calculation of climate statistics across the world and can be used as an indication ...