Secondary forests play an important part in carbon capture because they tend to absorb a larger amount of carbon than they lose to the atmosphere. 

For the first time since records began, the main nursery of Arctic sea ice in Siberia has yet to start freezing in late October. 

Long blue shadows on the snow portend frigid days ahead in this far eastern corner of Siberia.

As springtime arrives in the Andes, winter snow melts to provide an important water source for local communities.

A team of NASA researchers used satellite and radar imagery to help officials in Iowa better understand the effects of a derecho that ripped through the state in August.

Wildfires don’t stop being dangerous after the flames go out. 

Research scientists at the University of Iceland are currently participating in a joint European project on designing a new set of integrated assessment models to make Europe a low-carbon society.

On a clear morning in October 2019, Benjamin Z. Houlton stood at the edge of a corn field in California’s Central Valley.

Biologist James Stroud’s phone started buzzing early on Jan. 22. A friend who was bicycling to work past the white sands and palm tree edges of Key Biscayne, an island town south of Miami, sent Stroud a picture of a 2-foot-long lizard splayed out on its back. With its feet in the air, the iguana took up most of the sidewalk.

Results from a study published in the Journal of Biogeography indicate that wildfires may play a role in accelerating climate-driven species changes in mountain forests by compounding regional warming trends.