A new study, using a first-of-its-kind approach to analyze satellite imagery from boreal forests over the last three decades, found that fire may be changing the face of the region in a way researchers did not previously anticipate.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet will continue to increase its rate of melting over the rest of the century, no matter how much we reduce fossil fuel use, according to British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. 

A new study finds that climate change has become a significant factor in the formation of El Niños.

Biodegradable plastics may not be the solution to plastic pollution many hoped for, with a University of Otago study showing they are still harmful to fish.

Exposure to a large-scale disaster, such as a tsunami, impacts population health over a decade later. 

Since the 1980s, researchers have observed significant periods of unrest in a region of California's Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains characterized by swarms of earthquakes as well as the ground inflating and rising by almost half an inch per year during these periods.

A replacement for cobalt in batteries avoids its environmental and social impacts.

A new electrical method to conveniently change the direction of electron flow in some quantum materials could have implications for the development of next-generation electronic devices and quantum computers.

In the absence of human activity, fires would not burn in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

The expansion of farmland is the main cause of terrestrial biodiversity loss globally.