Reviving floodplain wetlands slashes carbon emissions by 39% and restores critical ecosystem functions in one year – without the methane spike typically seen in restored peatlands, a new study has found.

Lightning ignited two wildland fires on the Colorado Plateau near the Grand Canyon in July 2025 that grew to become large and disruptive. 

A new study indicates that forests, prairies and other natural areas around the globe acquire less nitrogen than previously estimated.

Climate change can make weather events more extreme—from droughts and wildfires to heat waves and major storms.

The Southwest United States is currently facing its worst megadrought of the past 1,200 years.

New research from Michigan State University, led by agricultural systems scientist Bruno Basso, addresses a major problem in agricultural carbon markets: how to set an accurate starting point, or “baseline,” for measuring climate benefits.

At the dawn of the millennium, a group of eminent scientists began compiling a list of the threats they felt were most likely to impact the world’s rocky shorelines over the coming quarter of a century.

Heaps of discarded clothing from the U.K. have been dumped in protected wetlands in Ghana, an investigation found.

Scientists have found that trees in cities respond to higher temperatures differently than those in forests, potentially masking climate impacts.

With projected global warming, the frequency of extreme storms will ramp up by the end of the century, according to a new study.