In the high desert of southwestern Utah, a crane lowered a 60-foot-long metal tool into a well, heading for fractured rock a mile deep where scientists are refining techniques for Earth’s heat to generate electricity almost anywhere.

As industry, infrastructure and society move into increasingly inaccessible and weather-prone areas, the risk and the need for accurate knowledge increase.

Researchers have long known that heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants such as DDT concentrate in the Arctic, in top predator animals like polar bears.

New research from the UBC-based Mother Tree Project is shedding light on how forests respond to harvesting and climate stress, including practices aimed at reducing wildfire risk.

New evidence suggests that a disease-causing tapeworm that has been spreading across the United States and Canada has arrived in the Pacific Northwest.

Climate change may reduce yields of crops like corn and soybeans, but it can also give some plants an edge.

After a wildfire, the flames may fade, but the danger does not.

This winter was one of the warmest on record across the West; as a result, many snowy, alpine areas have seen bouts of winter rainfall where there would ordinarily only be snow.

With climate change, mountain water resources are becoming a major issue.

A new study reveals an unprecedented increase in wildfires in tropical peatlands during the 20th century.