Until recent decades, researchers could be confident that their numerous studies about permafrost told the tale about this frozen phenomenon.

Environmental health experts also warn that some positive policy changes can lead to other potential problems.

Sea levels will continue to rise around the world long after current carbon emissions pledges made through the Paris climate agreement are met and global temperatures stabilize, a new study indicates.

Water economist calls for long-term solutions over current short-term relief efforts.

Increasingly frequent droughts, extensive deforestation and changing land use have made a tinderbox of Amazon rainforests — but some trees make out better than others.

Despite statewide devastation from wildfires, a new poll conducted by the Bill Lane Center for the American West shows Californians are still reluctant to subsidize wildfire prevention or support relocating communities at risk.

Harvard economist says rise in number of very hot days will cut productivity and hike health risks, especially for many in blue-collar jobs.

Although only a few households in Metro Vancouver have a water meter, the political will for mandatory metering is strong, new survey results suggest.

A new study carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) in cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature Vietnam (WWF-Vietnam) and the Sabah Forestry Department of the Government of Malaysia suggests that for ground dwelling mammal and bird communities, illegal hunting using indiscriminate snares may be a more immediate threat than forest degradation through selective logging.

Researchers classify 258 protected areas in Brazil as “moderately vulnerable” and 17 as “highly vulnerable”. Areas at greatest risk are in the Amazon, Atlantic Rainforest and Cerrado biomes.