Adding just the right amount of sediment to the surface of a Connecticut salt marsh protects coastlines by promoting rapid plant growth, scientists from the University of Connecticut report in a new study published recently in Environmental Engineering.

The price of electricity along the West Coast is likely to spike over the next few decades because of more extreme weather events, new research suggests. 

Climate change and air pollution are two major societal problems. 

Hurricane-force winds whipped fires across drought-parched grasslands and into suburban neighborhoods.

A new Texas A&M AgriLife study shows the annual crop can sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Homeowners know that the type of windows in a house contribute greatly to heating and cooling efficiency. 

The state climatologist says last month was the warmest December since 1889.

Just over one-quarter of adult Magellanic penguin bodies were found between the colony and the ocean.

Plants, like other organisms, can be severely affected by heat stress.

A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineering researcher has received a grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, to develop better methods to characterize, predict and cope with large Texas storms growing more unpredictable due to climate change.