From Hong Kong’s tiny subdivided flats to the migrant crisis, this year’s photography and sustainability award shortlist explores the theme of space from all perspectives.

Researchers tracked narwhals and found that they reconstruct their underwater world with more resolution that most other animals on the planet.

Today is the 82nd anniversary of the birth of astronomer and astronomy popularizer extraordinaire Carl Sagan. Most of us are familiar with this late American astronomer

The extent of Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater that floats on the Arctic Ocean, has been shrinking steadily. But, NASA scientists report, there is an additional problem:

Since 2010, Dr Thomas Krumpen from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research has been flying above northern Greenland towards North Pole to measure ice thickness. By lowering a small torpedo from the aircraft towards the sea ice scientists are able to to obtain data from inaccessible areas helping to build a clearer picture ice health. Continue reading…

The general public has had enough of experts, according to Michael Gove. But is he right? On Tuesday I attended a meeting in the Speaker’s House in Westminster with 100 members of the public who disagree with that sentiment. The event, Evidence Matters, was organized by the charitable trust Sense About Science and showcased the importance of evidence to people across all walks of life.

Ships, airplanes, and satellites all play a role in monitoring Chesapeake water quality, algae blooms, and dead zones.

Human impact and a booming bird population are devastating the Mojave desert tortoise. But one man is trying some unusual methods to save them.

Ghost lights used to be called will-o-the-wisps. They were a weird glow over swamps or bogs. Nowadays, people report strange lights in the sky in all sorts of places. Some are more famous than others. The ghost lights closest to me are in the desert-like Davis Mountains near Marfa, Texas, but you can also see them in the Brown Mountains of North Carolina, and other places in North America. There are modern, very ordinary explanations for these lights. Yet people still love to try to spot them. Follow the links below to some samples of North American ghost lights.

In a positive display of bipartisanship, U.S. senators from across the country have come together in support of AGI’s 19th annual Earth Science Week celebration. The coalition, which consists of members of Congress from Alaska to Florida, formally introduced a Senate resolution officially designating the week of October 9-15, 2016, as “Earth Science Week.”