Welcome to The Data Point, a series from the NBC News Data Graphics team that explains a slice of the latest news through charts and visuals. Hospitals in all but two states are, on average, ...

BERLIN — The European Space Agency is publicly releasing satellite measurements that show up-to-date levels of air pollution around the world. The agency said Thursday that the new online map reveals ...

The world's newest ocean-watcher is now live. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The new European-American ocean-monitoring ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the seafloor to date, according to a new study in Science. The work could help ...

Up to a quarter of all Americans live in areas where radon levels are above the "action level" set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to a new paper in the journal ...