As winds streamed past the South Sandwich Islands, the disrupted flow created an interlocking series of wave clouds.

Caves are easily forgotten when fire rips through the bush, but despite their robustness the long-term impact of frequent, unprecedented fire seasons presents a new challenge for subsurface geology.

As nations prepare to mitigate climate change, decision makers need to understand how land use fits into the climate equation.

CO2 concentrations in the air continue to rise rapidly, and a rapid reduction in man-made emissions is becoming increasingly important.

An explanation is proposed for extra heat coming through the oceans.

Australian experts are calling for the higher education sector to prepare for the knock-on effects of climate change on their research.

An unprecedented outbreak of large, intense fires stretched from the mid-north coast of New South Wales into central Queensland.

If the world is using more and more data, then it must be using more and more energy, right? Not so, says a comprehensive new analysis.

Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several metres. 

NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth’s atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted.