Nation struck with 20 separate billion-dollar disasters in 2021

On December 30, 2021, the Marshall Fire ripped through suburban neighborhoods on the west side of the Denver-Boulder metropolitan area.

In December 2020, a ring of warm water nearly 60 miles wide broke away from the Gulf Stream and displaced cold-water species sustaining many of New England’s commercial fisheries.

The macroalga giant kelp, which is an iconic and important ecosystem-structuring species found off the coast of California and many other coastlines, can grow 100-feet long within 1-2 years.

More than 20 million people in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia now face some of the worst food security risks in 35 years.

Even while skies are clearing over China, one type of particulate pollution continues to cause problems.

Researchers studying coral reefs damaged by rising sea temperatures have discovered an unexpected ‘bright spot’ of hope for communities who depend upon them for food security.

Hurricane-force winds whipped fires across drought-parched grasslands and into suburban neighborhoods.

A new Texas A&M AgriLife study shows the annual crop can sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Tom Jeffries and Tom Kelleher met at Rutgers University in the 1970s while studying industrially useful microbes.