Australian hot and dry extremes can have devastating effects on human health and resources.

Additional research on the region and its surrounding areas is already revealing the extent of wetland networks and how the Maya used them.

Scientists at Stanford have identified molecules that tough microbes use to survive in warming waters, opening a window more broadly into studying conditions in ancient seas.

MOSAiC expedition begins its ice drift on a floe at 85 degrees north and 137 degrees east

In the wake of recent wildfires that have ravaged northern and central California, a new study finds that the severity of fire activity in the Sierra Nevada region has been sensitive to changes in climate over the past 1,400 years.

Local conservation can boost the climate resilience of coastal ecosystems, species and cities and buy them precious time in their fight against sea-level rise, ocean acidification and warming temperatures, a new paper by scientists at Duke University and Fudan University suggests.

Our planet has been baking under the sun this summer as temperatures reached the hottest ever recorded and heat waves spread across the globe.

While the economic cost of natural disasters has not increased much on average, averages can be deceptive. 

Corals create potions that fight bacterial attackers, but warming appears to tip the scales against the potions as they battle a bacterium common in coral bleaching, according to a new study.

University of Maryland (UMD) scientists have carried out a novel statistical analysis to determine for the first time a global picture of how the ocean helps predict the low-level atmosphere and vice versa.