Looming climate change may be economically hard for low-income cattle farmers in poor countries due to increasing heat stress on the animals. 

Researchers using multiple high-resolution satellite observations have found that carbon loss has more than doubled since 2001 due to forest clearance across the tropics.

Despite efforts to reduce the risks, changes in the Earth’s climate caused by human activity are affecting the lives of billions of people, according to a major international report published today.

Scientists are turning to a combination of data collected from the air, land, and space to get a more complete picture of how climate change is affecting the planet’s frozen regions.

California is a national leader in renewable energy development. 

New research, led by Dr Petra Holden from the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), has shown how catchment restoration - through the management of alien tree infestation in the mountains of the southwestern Cape - could have lessened the impact of climate change on low river flows during the Cape Town “Day Zero” drought.

New study at South Pole discovers embayment the size of the UK formed part of East Antarctica’s elusive edge.

The soils and vegetation of Patagonia's fjord regions form a unique and highly sensitive ecosystem that is closely linked to marine ecosystems, sediment deposition and carbon storage in the ocean.

Antarctic fish have adapted over millennia to survive in the freezing temperatures of the Southern Ocean.

A study of more than 2,000 streams around North America found that those altered by human activity are at greater risk of flooding.