The warming or cooling of the atmosphere does not only depend on clouds and greenhouse gases. Aerosol particles also play an important role.

Plans to restore Indonesian peatlands are a cost-effective strategy for reducing the impacts of peatland fires to the environment, climate and human health, says a new study.

Many factors affect the flux of carbon into and out of Earth’s oceans, including ocean surface winds.

A project investigated how different climate scenarios and policy interventions could affect smallholder farmers in Nepal.

The climate crisis is limiting the availability of krill —small crustaceans that are vital in the marine food chain— during summer in some areas of the Antarctica.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that two intense periods of volcanism triggered global cooling and falling oxygen levels in the oceans, which caused one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history.

When forecasting how storms may change in the future, it helps to know something about their past. Judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s, hurricanes in the North Atlantic have become more frequent over the last 150 years.

Using artificial intelligence techniques, an international team that included Rutgers-New Brunswick researchers has traced the evolution of coccolithophores, an ocean-dwelling phytoplankton group, over 2.8 million years.

Researchers investigate the combined effect of drought and fire on stream communities, highlighting the importance of headwaters

Bacteria can help clean the groundwater. The choice of the right food for them is determined by the temperature.