CO2 concentrations in the air continue to rise rapidly, and a rapid reduction in man-made emissions is becoming increasingly important.

Australian experts are calling for the higher education sector to prepare for the knock-on effects of climate change on their research.

The 2014 Carlton Complex wildfire in north central Washington was the largest contiguous fire in state history. 

If the world is using more and more data, then it must be using more and more energy, right? Not so, says a comprehensive new analysis.

You can delay irrigating the lawn or washing the car all you want, but to really make a big dent in water savings we need to stop water waste long before the precious resource ever reaches our taps.

Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several metres. 

Only a fraction of conventional row crop farmers grow cover crops after harvest, but a new global analysis from the University of Illinois shows the practice can boost soil microbial abundance by 27%.

The striking patterns in northeastern Canada’s flood basalts tell a story of continental collisions that played out almost two billion years ago.

NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth’s atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted.

For the first time, researchers have used radar and other tools to accurately measure the volume of snow produced through cloud seeding.