An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Dan Gillikin surveyed the view from his front window and didn’t like what he saw.

In mid-April 2026, Super Typhoon Sinlaku churned across the North Pacific Ocean and brought heavy rain and flooding to the Mariana Islands. 

From late May into early June 2026, a broad, slow-spinning storm churned north-northwest over the Philippine Sea toward southern Japan. 

Diminishing periods of snow cover in northern forests, shortened by climate change, are poised to disrupt a delicate balance in some of the planet’s most climate-sensitive regions, according to new research from McMaster University, VU Amsterdam, and the Woodwell Climate Research Center.

Mangroves could store less carbon – and even begin releasing it – as sea levels rise, new research suggests.

Every year at Grand Canyon National Park, millions of visitors from all over the world stop at one of a dozen water spigots. 

In the absence of human interference, the soil beneath the world’s forests normally exhales carbon steadily and consistently. 

The new study mapped and assessed more than 140,000 solar PV installations worldwide using satellite data.

From sizzling bacon in the kitchen to wildfire smoke in the sky, cooking and pollution release microscopic particles that affect humans' health, the air they breathe, and even weather and climate.