The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released an annual report outlining NOAA’s 2021 accomplishments in research and development and one of those is the Future Seas project. The ...

Egypt’s Lake Manzala, on the northeastern edge of the Nile Delta and the tip of the Sinai Peninsula, has a long and storied history. For centuries, it has provided a steady supply of fish—and a ...

In May 2021, Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, burst to life without warning. Lava erupted from fissures and flowed down the mountain toward cities below, leaving ...

The universe revealed more of its secrets this year, and new missions will further explore our solar system and beyond. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

In yet another year of extremes, the United States in 2021 faced the “second highest number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on record,” and suffered the largest number of ...

Political divisions on confidence in the scientific and medical communities have widened, according to an analysis of the 2021 General Social Survey by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public ...

The oldest map in Europe, a "lost golden city" in Egypt and a massive geoglyph in India that may be the world's largest are just some of the archaeological discoveries that were reported in 2021.