Scientists analyzed coastal water quality in the months following a major Southern California wildfire. Their results were eye-opening.

The observation that ‘the fishing’s not what it used to be’ ranks up there with ‘the one that got away’ as a story that has crossed over from folk wisdom to folklore.

Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first-time blasts of hot, warm and cold winds from a neutron star whilst it consumes matter from a nearby star.

In the Ala Wai Canal in Waikiki, Hawai‘i, the abundance of Vibrio vulnificus, an infectious bacterium, is strongly influenced by the amount of rainfall in the surrounding areas, according to a recently published study by oceanographers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa and Hawai‘i Pacific University (HPU).

Not since Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 A.D. has the American West been so dry. 

A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that corals that underwent a stressful temperature treatment in the laboratory for 90 days were more tolerant to increased water temperatures.

Paleoclimate data retrieved from ocean sediment cores dating back 130,000 years show that sustained warming in the Indian Ocean during the Last Interglacial increased convective rainfall above the ocean, but weakened Indian Summer Monsoon rainfall on land.

The United Nations has adopted an historic resolution laying the groundwork for a legally binding agreement aimed at ending plastic pollution.

Renewable energy that feeds into the main power grid could destabilise the system and potentially cause power failures according to a new study.

An analysis revealed that the cooling effect of Tonga's volcano eruptions would be much smaller than initially thought and not strong enough to overwhelm longer-term global warming tendency.