As climate change warms the Earth, higher-latitude regions will be at greater risk for toxins produced by algal blooms, according to new research led by Carnegie’s Anna Michalak, Julian Merder, and Gang Zhao.

They found that almost all the ice shelves on the western side of Antarctica experienced ice loss.

The massive 2015 flooding of the Sagavanirktok River in northern Alaska had immediate impacts, including closure of the Dalton Highway for several days, but it also contributed to longer-term ground subsidence in the permafrost-rich region.

Andrew Wood, a DPhil student in the University of Oxford’s Department of Biology and first author of the study, said: ‘Weather drives wine quality and wine taste.

Dynamic and changing Arctic Ocean conditions likely caused three major mortality events in the eastern North Pacific gray whale population since the 1980s, a new study has found.

After several years of comparatively quiet fire seasons, Indonesia saw the return of intense, smoky fires in 2023. 

Lack of rainfall is not the only measure of drought. 

As California works to meet climate and air quality goals, a key to the transition will come from biomass, which is renewable organic material from plants and animals.

Last month marked by heat waves, tropical systems and flooding rain.

Research from SMU fire anthropologist shows Fiji grassland fires predate human settlement by thousands of years.