As human activity shapes Earth’s climate, animals must increasingly adapt to new environmental conditions.

Researchers present new evidence that the deoxygenation of the ocean wiped out biodiversity during one of the “Big Five” mass extinctions in Earth’s history – relevant information as climate change contributes to decreasing oxygen in the oceans today.

Oceanographers used data from a pan-Arctic survey of carbon and trace elements to better understand how climate change will affect ecosystems in one of the fastest-warming regions of the world.

NASA does more than explore space.

Researchers at School of Biological Sciences and Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong have developed a new method for determining what corals eat, and demonstrated that reliance on certain nutritional sources underpins their bleaching susceptibility in warming oceans.

The latest tropical cyclone to develop in the Southern Indian Ocean is no threat to land areas.  

Increased time constraints and the need for convenience in raising children appear to offset parents’ concerns about the future when it comes to their carbon footprints, according to new research by University of Wyoming economists and a colleague in Sweden.

For two days in mid-April, severe storms raced through the southern U.S. and NASA created an animation using satellite data to show the movement and strength of those storms.

Last year was one of the worst years on record for the Greenland ice sheet, which shrunk by hundreds of billions of tons.

As a persistent drought drags on, water levels are dropping at a key reservoir that supplies Santiago.