Images of extreme weather and alarming headlines about climate change have become common.

Annual update improves understanding of changing climate, wildlife impacts.

Seventy percent of the current infrastructure in the Arctic has a high potential to be affected by thawing permafrost in the next 30 years.

Berkeley Lab working with water managers to produce “actionable science”.

The future of the world’s coral reefs is uncertain, as the impact of global heating continues to escalate.

Researchers show that humans are reversing a long-term cooling trend tracing back at least 50 million years, and it's taken just two centuries.

Under future climate scenarios, changing winds may make it harder for North American birds to migrate south in the autumn but easier for them to come north in the spring.

Ozone layer depletion has increased snowfall over Antarctica in recent decades, partially mitigating the ongoing loss of the continent’s ice sheet mass, new University of Colorado Boulder research finds.

Look at a digital map of the world with pixels that are more than 50 miles on a side and you’ll see a hazy picture: whole cities swallowed up into a single dot; Vancouver Island and the Great Lakes just one pixel wide. 

The largest extinction in Earth’s history marked the end of the Permian period, some 252 million years ago.