Researchers have modeled how coastal flooding will impact commutes in the Bay Area over the next 20 years. Regions with sparse road networks will have some of the worst commute delays, regardless of their distances from the coast.

New Guinea is the most floristically diverse island in the world, an international collaboration led by the University of Zurich has shown.

Global changes in land use are disrupting the balance of wild animal communities in our environment, and species that carry diseases known to infect humans appear to be benefiting, finds a new UCL-led study.

A team of geoscience researchers in the Virginia Tech College of Science has developed a new theory to explain how and why injection-induced earthquakes continue to occur even when injection rates decline.

More than 500 dams are planned or already under construction within protected areas around the world, according to a new study published in the journal Conservation Letters.

Researchers have discovered why the tropics and a handful of other areas across the globe have become the most biodiverse places on the planet.

A new study which provides a global estimate of rock cover on the Earth’s glaciers has revealed that the expanse of rock debris on glaciers, a factor that has been ignored in models of glacier melt and sea level rise, could be significant.

Ecologists at the University of Turku, Finland, have discovered that the food hoards pygmy owls collect in nest-boxes ("freezers") for winter rot due to high precipitation caused by heavy autumn rains and if the hoarding has been initiated early in the autumn.

Clean-up devices that collect waste from the ocean surface won't solve the plastic pollution problem, a new study shows.

Satellites can spot some blooms earlier, resulting in significant savings on health care, lost work hours, and other economic costs.