Severe river floods are escalating in temperate climates and putting at risk populations, livelihoods and property.

The mountain forests of Tanzania are more than 9,300 miles away from Salt Lake City, Utah. But, as in eastern Africa, the wild places of Utah depend on a diversity of birds to spread seeds, eat pests and clean up carrion.

If emissions continue unchecked, summers in the Northern Hemisphere could last nearly six months by 2100, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

On October 20 last year, French oil giant Total docked a tanker loaded with Australian liquefied natural gas at the port of Dapeng in southern China.

Global targets to improve the welfare of people across the planet will have mixed impacts on the world’s forests, according to new research.

An increase in overall hospitalizations was reported for older adults in the week following exposure to a tropical cyclone, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University’s Earth Institute and colleagues at Colorado State University and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

From ice skating, it has been known for a long time that a thin liquid film  forms on ice surfaces.

The annually occurring algal spring blooms play an important role for our climate, as they remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. 

When the Arctic polar vortex is especially strong and stable, the coldest polar air stays in the Arctic.

A Texas A&M research team is using genome sequencing to monitor herring populations, which could help prevent overfishing.