A pair of new studies by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the School of Architecture shed new light on the potential of climate-inspired architectural and urban design proposals, termed "climatopias," to effectively address climate change challenges.

The Alaska we experience today and our children will experience in the future is not the Alaska of the past.

New research has revealed less than a quarter of the remaining tropical rainforests around the globe can safeguard thousands of threatened species from extinction.

Recent decades have seen a rapid surge in damages and disruptions caused by flooding. 

Glaciers have historically determined the boundary between Italy and Switzerland in the Alps.

Many recent studies assume that elderly people are at particular risk of dying from extreme heat as the planet warms.

Amid all the changes in Earth’s climate, sea ice in the stormy Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica was, for a long time, an odd exception.

The Arctic is shaped by its cold, harsh climate and limited daylight hours during winter. But the typically frigid region is warming about four times faster than the rest of the planet, which has facilitated more transportation and increased development.

Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, heatwaves at sea – 2023 set a number of alarming new records.

MIT chemical engineers have devised a way to capture methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and convert it into polymers.