It’s an apocalyptic scene that has become all too familiar in recent years. 

Extreme storms, like Sandy or Xaver, don’t happen often but when they do, cities need to be prepared.

When presented with proposed natural gas export operations in the state, Oregonians are more likely to perceive the environmental and public health risks than the potential financial gains, a recent study from Oregon State University found.

A new tool can better assess an important but overlooked indicator of global warming: the variety of bugs, worms, and snails living in high mountain streams.

Nine out of 10 people in the world breathe air that exceeds the World Health Organization’s guidelines for air pollution.

Researchers will source useful gene variations from CGIAR genebanks to develop climate-smart crops.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Lynn Adler, professor of biology, has been awarded $2.4 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to trace how food affects the ability of pathogens to attack plant pollinators. 

Honey might be a sweet solution for developing environmentally friendly components for neuromorphic computers, systems designed to mimic the neurons and synapses found in the human brain.

A puzzling, decade-long slowdown in summer warming across Greenland has been explained by researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan.

In arid Western states, the climate is growing warmer and drier, leading to increased demand for water resources from humans and ecosystems.