The American Meteorological Society released its annual State of the Climate report this week, providing a comprehensive overview of global conditions in 2024.

The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the understory to the canopy.

Chemical engineering student’s research extracts rare earth minerals from phosphogypsum — manmade lakes of radioactive, toxic waste.

Heat waves are becoming more common, severe and long-lasting. 

There are more than 15,000 cattle and hog feeding operations in the United States.

UC Berkeley researchers tweaked a key enzyme involved in microbial methane production to understand the unique fingerprints of different environments on Earth that generate the greenhouse gas.

The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report published in the leading medical journal The Lancet.

Wastewater can contain many harmful substances, but a new method enables researchers to purify this water using sunlight and droplets of oil.

20,000 tree ring samples shows remarkable growth resilience to droughts, but tree death could result in equivalent of Germany’s annual CO2 emissions.

The University of Plymouth is addressing one of the key challenges in shipping’s energy transition: upskilling the workforce – at sea, in the port environment, and across the fuel supply chain – to use low and zero-carbon fuels.