For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape — closely monitored, but largely unchecked. 

From lake-draining drought in California to bridge-breaking floods in China, extreme weather is wreaking havoc.

Major disruptions to our health and quality of life are front of mind in an era when wildfires, floods, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impact Earth’s population daily.

In estimations of ocean heat content — important when assessing and predicting the effects of climate change — calculations have often presented the rate of warming as a gradual rise from the mid-20th century to today. 

Climate change is likely to kill back some crop diseases in tropical countries of the global South, with the disease risks instead rising in more northerly regions such as Europe and China, a study says.

A new online visualization tool will enable anyone to see what sea levels will look like anywhere in the world in the decades to come.

Wildfire activity exploded across the drought-stricken portions of the West, especially the Northwest.

How can snow cover on the Himalayas influence the species that thrive in the ocean a thousand kilometers away?

Aerial photographs taken before and after the storm showed researches the extent of forest canopy damage.

Coastal marshes are vulnerable to erosion caused by rising seas, pounding waves, and tidal flows.