Slow-moving landslides, places where the land creeps sluggishly downhill over long periods of time, are relatively stable — until they aren't.

During one of the hottest days of the year in each of the 13 cities, volunteers will drive prescribed routes in the morning, afternoon, and evening with custom-engineered heat sensors mounted on their own cars.

Arctic coastal watersheds are some of the most threatened regions on Earth.

A Northern Arizona University professor co-authored a paper on the importance of springs in a drying climate that is in the inaugural climate change refugia special edition of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

A recent study published in Environmental Research Letters by a team of researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) finds that the rainy season of northern Central Asia, which occurs in May-July in present-day, will shift to March-May at the end of the 21st century.

Though corals worldwide are threatened due to climate change and local stressors, the front lines of the battle are microscopic in scale.

The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans - where it can be stored for tens of millennia - is revealed in new research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).

The devastating southeastern Australian bushfires that started last September spewed smoke and aerosols higher into the atmosphere than some Earth-observing instruments have ever measured.

Marine biologists forecast the effects of oil platform decommissioning on fish communities.

Our growing need for food poses one of the biggest threats to the environment. Stanford ocean and food security experts explain how the ocean could produce dramatically more food while driving sustainable economic growth.