Oil is an important natural resource for many industries, but it can lead to serious environmental damage when accidentally spilled.

Climate change is a global phenomenon, but its impacts are felt at a very local level.

Due to the changing climate, young herring arrive in the Wadden Sea earlier and earlier in spring. 

Fungal disease Fusarium head blight (FHB) is on the rise due to increasingly humid conditions induced by climate change during the wheat growing season, but a fundamental discovery by University of Adelaide researchers could help reduce its economic harm.

As the climate changes, animals are doing what they can to adapt.

Category 4 Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida’s Lee County on Sept. 28, 2022, battering the region with wind speeds of 155 miles per hour and storm surge up to 13 feet – the highest storm surge documented in Southwest Florida in the past 150 years.

A study in more than 3,000 US counties, with 315 million residents, has suggested that air pollution is linked with stress and depression, putting under-65-year-olds at increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. 

In looking up at the sky during these early weeks of spring, you may very well see a flock of birds moving in unison as they migrate north. 

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite that spreads from bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. 

Just as water moves through a river, rivers themselves move across the landscape.