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Their intuitive sense of the magnetic field surrounding them allow sockeye salmon to circumnavigate obstacles to find their birth stream
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A new tool uses satellite imagery to help researchers track small disturbances such as bug infestations, which may increase in scope as climate changes
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By testing ice cores in Greenland, scientists can look back at environmental data from millennia past
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Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough looks at how our scientists are studying our changing climate
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Ambient heat produced by a city's buildings and cars often gets lifted into the jet stream and affects temperatures in places thousands of miles away
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A new study suggests that lightning alone—even without the other elements of a thunderstorm—might trigger migraines
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A new study shows that dispersing minerals into oceans to stem climate change would be an inefficient and impractical process
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As cities like New York prepare for what appears to be a future of more extreme weather, the focus increasingly is on following nature's lead
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In 2012, many plants in the eastern U.S. flowered earlier than in any other year on record
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Drought, heatwaves, cyclones--even a tornado in Hawaii--mark last year as one filled with record-breaking severe weather
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In acidic water, drilling sponges damage scallops twice as quickly, worsening the effects of ocean acidification
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New research on Pacific corals that trace climate patterns back 7,000 years shows how recent El Niños compare with those of the past
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An underground scientist is pioneering a new way to learn what the climate was like thousands of years ago
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Smithsonian scientists have taken to the Chesapeake Bay to investigate how marshlands react to the shifting environment
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Coral reefs and radio telescopes make a trip to the tropics more than worthwhile
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Preview some of the top-notch shows—on anatomy, bioluminescence, water tanks and more—slated for the next year
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Previously traced to ancient Egypt, prehistoric pottery indicates that cheese was invented thousands of years earlier
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After 99 days in space, the museum's new jumping spider made it only five days before dying of natural causes
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After decades of uncertainty, a new study confirms that both polar ice sheets are melting
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The devastating drought of the 1930s forever changed American agriculture. Could those conditions return?
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