Groundwater – a vital source of water for drinking and irrigation across sub-Saharan Africa – is resilient to climate variability and change, according to a new study led by UCL and Cardiff University.

Scientists find pockets of methane in deep-sea rock samples.

As a least auklet lands on the bow of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, an audible gasp rolls through observers on the Healy’s bridge.

Excitement was brimming this week as MacKimmie Tower’s first occupants moved into their new work spaces.

By analysing 138 experiments, researchers have mapped the potential of today’s plants and trees to store extra carbon by the end of the century.

Connected areas of high-quality forest running through oil palm plantations could help support increased levels of biodiversity, new research suggests.

An international team of scientists reviewed more than 10,000 published climate change studies and has reached a sobering conclusion.

To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface — an underwater “internet of things.” 

Wildfires in the West are becoming inevitable, and communities that rethink what it means to live with them will likely fare better than those that simply rebuild after they burn.

Crude oil and gas naturally escape from the seabed in many places known as "seeps."