The work is part of a multiyear effort to develop a distributed sensor network for relaying data collected from this critical region.

Climate scientist Sai Ravela is using games to help coastal communities find creative adaptations to climate change.

The central north Amazon, with extensive areas of high forest cover, natural savannas and vast and important indigenous territories, was not previously considered as being the most affected by climate change.

Wildfires in the Mediterranean region are becoming drastically more intense. 

The Antarctic ozone layer is recovering, a major environmental success following the Montreal Protocol. 

A strong earthquake near the Arctic island of Jan Mayen triggered a massive rock avalanche in March 2025. 

If there were an apex predator among fires, tropical peatland fires would be a top contender. 

More than two dozen University of Victoria researchers contributed to Canada’s Changing Climate Report 2026, the country’s most comprehensive assessment of how climate change is impacting communities, ecosystems and coastlines across Canada.

Winter near the Antarctic Circle brings months of frozen darkness, when sea ice chokes ocean waters and many of its denizens hunker down to ride out the harsh conditions.

In August 2026, back-to-back winter storms left parts of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile covered in a rare blanket of snow.