An early exit of Alaska’s spring snow means more acreage could burn during the coming wildfire season, which begins when the snow melts off, says new research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

A winter storm brought below-freezing temperatures and heavy snow to the southeastern United States in January 2025.

Land clearing for nickel mines is causing a more severe threat to the climate than initially thought, a study led by a University of Queensland researcher has found.

As the northern latitudes warm, ice is melting and vegetation is growing more abundant.

A new study has revealed the alarming extent glaciers have shrunk over the past 40 years in a global warming hotspot for the first time – and the biggest retreat has occurred in recent years.

A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the first peer-reviewed study documenting the devastating coral bleaching events that occurred on the southern Great Barrier Reef in early 2024.

On January 17, 2025, a tropical low formed over the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. 

West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. 

Toward the end of 2024, less than halfway through the melt season in Antarctica, the icy continent had already seen bouts of widespread melting along its coastal areas. 

For decades on the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast, recreational anglers have braved the cold temperatures of late October and November to chase one of the region’s most iconic fish species, the striped bass.