The findings have implications for our understanding of the role of nature in mitigating climate change, including the potential for nature-based carbon removal projects such as mass tree-planting.

The Sun Corridor in Arizona in the semi-arid Southwestern U.S. is a land of seemingly unlimited growth that is constantly colliding with physical constraints.

In the late 2000s, Scott Saleska noticed something strange going on in the Amazon rainforest. 

Abrupt shifts within complex systems such as the Earth’s climate system are extremely hard to predict.

As the world’s largest unfrozen freshwater resource, groundwater is crucial for life on Earth. 

Forecasters can use images in social media to better communicate weather related hazards of hurricanes, according to a pair of new studies. 

A new UC Riverside study shows soot from large wildfires in California traps sunlight, making days warmer and drier than they ought to be.

Lake Ohrid, at 2 million years old, may be the most biodiverse lake of its size in the world, teeming with fish, snails, crustaceans, and more.

This year has already seen massive heatwaves around the globe, with cities in Mexico, India, Pakistan and Oman hitting temperatures near or past 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).  

The increase in the frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves in recent decades is one of the effects of global climate change.