Through the DNA analysis of old air samples collected by the Swedish Armed Forces, researchers at Lund University in Sweden can show that spore dispersal of northern mosses has shifted over the past 35 years.

For centuries, coastlines have attracted dense human settlement and economic activity.

Today, the German research vessel SONNE departs from Balboa (Panama) on a five-week expedition along the Central American Volcanic Arc.

A modelling study shows how heat stored in the ocean could be released after centuries of global cooling.

When militia attacks disrupted shipping lanes in the Red Sea, few imagined the ripple effects would reach the clouds over the South Atlantic. 

New research reveals for the first time why Europe could gain more than an extra month of summer days by 2100 using climate data from the last millennia.

Around the world, mountains are warming faster than surrounding lowlands, scientists warn. 

Mountains worldwide are experiencing climate change more intensely than lowland areas, with potentially devastating consequences for billions of people who live in and/or depend on these regions, according to a major global review.

New study reveals burning of fossil fuels is accelerating winter rainfall changes in the UK and Europe, almost 25 years sooner than expected.

Climate change will make monsoon storms in South Asia wetter and weaker, with more storms pushing further inland across India.