One recent morning, Alan Solomon, owner of Sawkill Lumber, reached out to Mukund Rao, a dendrochronologist—a scientist who studies tree rings. 

Ice covers about 1.7 million square kilometers (656,000 square miles) of Greenland, forming the largest ice sheet on Earth outside of Antarctica.

As climate change drives earlier spring conditions in the Arctic, birds species that travel there to breed there are under pressure to migrate faster. 

Warmer weather across the globe is reshaping the landscape of human health.

According to ETH Zurich climate researchers, greenhouse gas emissions from major fossil fuel and cement producers are significant contributors to the occurrence and intensity of heat waves. 

New study finds increasing hot weather and lightning could spark more fires.

A particularly strong monsoon has delivered above-normal levels of rainfall to parts of Pakistan since late June 2025. Extensive flooding has affected millions of people, destroyed infrastructure, inundated a large portion of the country’s agricultural land, and claimed hundreds of lives.

A new study led by University of Colorado Denver has uncovered how climate change and intensifying wildfires are disrupting dragonfly mating traits—threatening to push some species toward local extinction.

A new study maps the planetary boundary of “functional biosphere integrity” in spatial detail and over centuries. 

Most of the Earth’s fresh water is locked in the ice that covers Antarctica.