The continental shelf is the submerged extension of a continent and as such it is at the crossroad of terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric influences.

When Mark Abbott and his team pulled a 300-foot-long core of mud from a lakebed high in the Peruvian Andes, he hoped it might provide a long-sought-after glimpse of the past 160,000 years of climate change.

A staggering 57% of threatened species need targeted recovery actions to ensure their survival, new research has shown.

In summer 2022, multiple heatwaves around the world felled temperature records and fueled wildfires.

Proteins often consist of hundreds or thousands of individual parts, the amino acids.

The State of California is banking on its forests to help reduce planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Antarctic sea ice shrank to a record low for the month

A series of 100-degree days have created worsening conditions for livestock and crop producers across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agents report.

Designed to analyze airborne dust to see how it might affect climate, the EMIT mission launches to the International Space Station on Thursday, July 14.

Greenhouse gas production is significantly less when biobased residues like compost replaces widely used nitrogen fertilizer during spring freeze-thaw events in cold temperate regions.