As the New Year starts, the outlook for the bushfire situation in Australia continues to be grim.

For humans, light is a strong environmental time cue that keeps our body clocks in sync and help regulate sleep and wakefulness over a 24-hour period.

As deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon soars under President Jair Bolsonaro, a new study warns that the regrowth of logged Amazon forests, and the amount of CO2 they store, is far less than previously believed.

Global warming is driving rapid environmental change in the Arctic. "To understand these changes, field measurements that adequately represent environmental variation across the Arctic as a whole are crucial", says PhD student Anna-Maria Virkkala from the University of Helsinki.

Tiny bits of DNA collected from waters off the West Coast allowed scientists to identify more species of marine vertebrates than traditional surveys with trawl nets.

More than half of Earth’s rivers freeze over every year.

As the world warms, a new study is helping scientists understand how cone-bearing trees like pines and junipers may respond to drought.

As climate change accelerates, the oceans are rapidly acidifying.

Returning croplands to forests is a sustainability gold standard to mitigate climate change impacts and promote conservation.

While many conservation plans focus on only environmental indicators for success, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)’s coral reef program is trying a relatively new approach: focusing on both social and ecological processes and outcomes to ensure a long-term future for coral reef systems, according to a newly published study.