Covering only 3-4% of the global land surface, peatlands store one-third of the total global soil carbon despite.

Charcoal particles from recent bushfires in NSW were transported 50 kilometres, which has significance for fire history reconstruction.

More than half of the world’s population faces a looming threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water because climate change and urbanisation are expected to cause an increase in groundwater organic carbon, a new UNSW study has found.

Efforts to create synthetic replacements for palm oil are still likely to take several years, so immediate attention should be focused on making the existing production process more sustainable, researchers at the University of Bath’s Centre for Integrated Bioprocessing Research (CIBR) and Centre for Sustainable Circular Technologies (CSCT) have found.

The natural coastal defenses provided by mangrove forests reduce annual flooding significantly in critical hotspots around the world. 

Awareness of climate change and its impacts is not enough to move people to action.

Colour-changing crabs struggle to camouflage themselves when exposed to noise from ships, new research shows.

In numerical weather forecasting research, how to improve short-term forecasts of tropical cyclone intensity is a challenging problem that has long plagued meteorologists and operational forecasters, despite meteorologists having greatly increased the accuracy of the initial field through increasing observations.in either quantity or quality. 

A new study says that hurricanes Irma and Maria combined in 2017 to knock down a quarter of the biomass contained in Puerto Rico’s trees — and that massive rainfall, more than wind, was a previously unsuspected key factor. 

Scientists from across Europe call for swift and effective action from the EU with regard to its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).