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.

In a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers used chemicals from preserved plant matter to pinpoint the processes responsible for changes in past rainfall and drought in southwestern Africa, with implications for the future.

If global temperatures increase by 1 degree Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will be exposed to heat and humidity so extreme they will be unable to naturally cool themselves, according to interdisciplinary research from the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, Purdue University College of Sciences and Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future.

The Gulf Stream is intrinsic to the global climate system, bringing warm waters from the Caribbean up the East Coast of the United States.

Due to the changing climate, the underwater world is getting ever noisier. 

Intense tropical cyclones are one of the most devastating natural disasters in the world due to torrential rains, flooding, destructive winds, and coastal storm surges.