Every day, millions of people use technologies that depend on objects orbiting hundreds or thousands of kilometres above Earth. From checking the weather forecast in the morning to using navigation ...

From lakes to rivers, freshwater is declining worldwide under rising climate and land pressure.

The severe water shortage has resulted in the near-entire fish population of the reservoir being killed off earlier this ...

A new continent-wide map is helping identify where Africa’s groundwater can support drinking water and irrigation. Monitoring ...

How can satellite data be used to track river drinking water? This is what a recent study published in Nature Water hopes to ...

It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck the facility or knew what it was. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. By Christoph Koettl and Christiaan ...

Rivers do not sit still for easy measurement. Some shift across floodplains, some hide under tree cover, and some disappear ...

Mangrove forests, long considered among the world's most threatened ecosystems, are now showing signs of global rebound, a new study reports. These findings mean experts are cautiously optimistic ...

A Pacific-wide tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake gave scientists their first detailed satellite view ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote for ...

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