A new study reveals that the impact humans are having on the Amazon rainforest is so profound it is even changing the evolutionary history and functionality of the forests.

David MacFarlane, a professor of measurements and modeling in the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University, recently completed a six-month sabbatical that took him from the mangrove coasts of Mexico to the alpine forests of Italy.

New research shows that crops like maize and wheat, which depend on recycled rainfall, are more vulnerable to drought. 

Climate change is changing the size of fishes in Michigan’s inland lakes, leaving the young and old of many species more vulnerable to predation.

New study reveals underestimation of carbon uptake in rivers in arid areas, with global implications.

A new study published in the journal, Environmental Research Letters, reports that cooling the planet by injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere—a proposed climate intervention technique—could reduce the nutritional value of the world’s crops.

Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 42% since 1979, when regular satellite monitoring began. 

New research into how East Antarctica’s ice shelves melt reveals future global sea-level rise predictions could be significantly underestimated.

The most sophisticated modelling to date forecasts that under the current global emissions pathway the Great Barrier Reef could lose most of its coral by the end of the century, but curbing climate change and strategic management will help coral resilience.

Much of the Midwest is experiencing drought due to very dry weather in the late summer and early fall.