Currently unaccounted for, unremediated discharge from old mines can transport CO2 from bedrock to the atmosphere.

Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba this week as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record. 

The planet’s natural carbon sinks are reaching critical limits, absorbing fewer emissions than expected as decades of climate change has weakened their capacity, a new report warns.

To many people, nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is only known as a party drug or from the dentist. 

Karimah Preston is close to attaining her second degree in engineering. But when she first matriculated to North Carolina A&T University, where she would graduate with a bachelor’s degree in biological and biosystems engineering, she wasn’t considering engineering.

Last year saw DRI’s inaugural global initiative aimed at advancing community resilience and adaptability in the face of rapid global change – AWE+, for an Adaptable World Environment.

It could be the last and best chance to save the world’s tropical forests. As international aid budgets for conservation crash and carbon offset schemes for protecting forests are widely discredited, Brazil is about to unveil an ambitious plan that would triple current finance for saving forests worldwide by channeling profits from international trade in government bonds.

Sea level rise means fresh groundwater will increasingly become salty. 

Glaciers are fighting back against climate change by cooling the air that touches their surfaces. 

A new project led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology will transform our understanding of a group of manufactured chemicals that can last hundreds of years in the environment, posing long-term risks to ecosystems and potentially human health.