It’s an apocalyptic scene that has become all too familiar in recent years. 

Extreme storms, like Sandy or Xaver, don’t happen often but when they do, cities need to be prepared.

A new tool can better assess an important but overlooked indicator of global warming: the variety of bugs, worms, and snails living in high mountain streams.

Researchers use environmental DNA to identify the species that inhabit the coral reefs around the Big Island of Hawai'i.

Researchers will source useful gene variations from CGIAR genebanks to develop climate-smart crops.

A puzzling, decade-long slowdown in summer warming across Greenland has been explained by researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan.

In arid Western states, the climate is growing warmer and drier, leading to increased demand for water resources from humans and ecosystems.

A new study by scientists Kaitlin Naughten and Paul Holland from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) provides the first evidence that rising greenhouse gases have a long-term warming effect on the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica.

Researchers have untangled puzzling patterns of sinking and rising land to pin down the underground locations where water is being pumped for irrigation.

The latest State of the Ecosystem Reports highlight fishing communities with environmental justice concerns and potential risks to fishery management from proposed offshore wind energy development.