John Mutter remembers seeing the roofs of single-story homes poking above the water level in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans.

So-called “100-year weather events” now seem almost commonplace as floods, storms and fires continue to set new standards for largest, strongest and most destructive.

Human-driven climate change threatens many species, including birds.

By probing proteins from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, researchers show how organisms may adapt to rising global temperatures.

Almost everything Nina Wurzburger does — at least in terms of research — relates to forests.

Arctic sea ice has been melting at a slower rate for the past 20 years, despite human-induced global warming.

A combination of policies could drive the transition to “clean steel” – cutting emissions from a hard-to-decarbonise industry, new research shows.

Wildfires release vast amounts of visible pollutants into the atmosphere that darken skies and push people indoors to avoid unhealthy air. 

Over the past 8,000 years, Utah’s Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. 

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is making it easier for scientists to explore complex geoscience data—from tracking sea levels on Earth to analyzing atmospheric conditions on Mars.