An international team of scientists has used artificial intelligence and commercial satellites to identify an unexpectedly large number of trees spread across arid and semi-arid areas.

The state’s brutal fire season has not ended.

Assistant Professor of Geography Julie Loisel is among a team of scientists who agree that preserving peatlands is essential to limiting climate warming.

In the past 20 years, Central Europe has experienced six summer heat waves and droughts.

An area in the Olympic Peninsula’s Hoh Rain Forest in Washington state for years held the distinction as one of the quietest places in the world.

In 2018, California wildfires caused economic losses of nearly $150 billion, or about 0.7 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire United States that year, and a considerable fraction of those costs affected people far from the fires and even outside of the Golden State.

Over the past several decades, marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as a favored conservation tool. 

The country endured its hottest spring and November on record.

About a month before the start of astronomical summer in the southern hemisphere, vast areas of sea ice were already painted blue with meltwater.

Dune fields of interest to scientists who study the Red Planet stand out in the Kobuk Valley amid a backdrop of green.