The nutritional qualities of shellfish could be significantly reduced by future ocean acidification and warming, a new study suggests.

UVic geography professor Johan Feddema’s life-long academic interest in the interactions between human activity and the earth’s surface and climate didn’t start in a lab but in a graveyard.

A team of scientists have discovered that the exchange of water between the North and South Atlantic became significantly larger fifty-nine million years ago.

Global emissions are on the rise as national commitments to combat climate change come up short. 

Chinese scientists shed light on the meteorological conditions responsible for the rate of icing growth on electric power transmission lines. 

The last few years have been turbulent for the global dam industry.

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types of microbes, many of which use hydrocarbons such as methane and butane as energy sources to survive and grow—meaning the newly identified bacteria might be helping to limit the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and might one day be useful for cleaning up oil spills.

A new study shows extreme heat events both in the summer and in the winter are increasing across the U.S. and Canada.

Organic compounds undergo drastic variations in their chemical composition as they transfer from the ocean’s surface to atmospheric aerosols which act as nuclei to form clouds.

The research co-led by Drs. Christelle Not and Benoit Thibodeau from the Department of Earth Sciences and the Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong, highlights a dramatic weakening of the circulation during the 20th century that is interpreted to be a direct consequence of global warming and associated melt of the Greenland Ice-Sheet.