Few places afford a such a clear view of climate change as does Greenland, a frozen island in the Arctic about half the size of the United States, with a polar ice cap that’s three kilometers thick at its center.

Coastal cities play a central role in the global economy and exercise important societal functions.

Ancient viruses preserved in glacial ice hold valuable information about changes in Earth’s climate, a new study suggests.

Colorado State University is leading a new interdisciplinary research project into the ways predators and prey in sensitive ecosystems may react to climate change based on their physiology, genetics and relationships to each other.  

They call it the Doomsday Glacier.

At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to 51 million years ago, Earth experienced dramatic warming periods, both gradual periods stretching millions of years and sudden warming events known as hyperthermals.

Graduate students and scientists specializing in oceanographic, climate, and statistical sciences gathered for a weeklong summer school program designed to teach best practices for understanding, deriving, and communicating the uncertainties involved in gathering and analyzing ocean and climate data.

Greenhouse gas concentrations, the global temperature across land and the ocean, global sea level and ocean heat content all reached record highs in 2023, according to the 34th annual State of the Climate reportoffsite link.

The Air Quality Stripes which were created by the University of Leeds, the University of Edinburgh, North Carolina State University, and the UK Met Office, starkly contrast the significant improvements in air quality across much of Europe with the alarming deterioration in parts of Africa and Central Asia.

Flooding from rising sea levels endangers people, infrastructure, and agriculture across Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nations, including Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and St Lucia.