In January 2024, Tropical Cyclone Belal lashed Réunion and Mauritius, islands in the southwest Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, with torrential rain and flooding.

New investment in training programmes will boost the UK’s expertise in flood management, wetland restoration and freshwater quality.

Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater — the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation — can threaten food production amid drought and drier climes.

Study shows desire for new forecasts, potentially altered behavior when risk is high.

Researchers at ETH Zurich are developing a new method to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. 

The Arctic, Earth’s icy crown, is experiencing a climate crisis like no other. 

An international team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has used a novel 500-year dataset to frame a “restorative” pathway through which humanity can avoid the worst ecological and social outcomes of climate change.

Curtin University research using thermal imaging of numbats in Western Australia has found that during hot weather the endangered animals are limited to as little as ten minutes of activity in the sun before they overheat to a body temperature of greater than 40°C.

Earth’s average surface temperature in 2023 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA.

Beaches and dunes are becoming increasingly trapped between rising sea levels and infrastructure.