This may sound counterintuitive, but reducing the number of animals in a population can help the remaining individuals to survive through the winter.

Wildfires are burning more severely and more often, urban noise pollution is growing into a global public health menace, and phenological mismatches – disruptions in the timing of life-cycle stages in natural systems – are causing ecological consequences. 

Climate experts and engineers have created a new model to predict the damage caused by adverse weather. 

A drop in the total number of rainy days each year is contributing to an earlier arrival of spring for plants in northern climates, a new study finds.

The United States is expected to experience as much sea level rise by the year 2050 as it witnessed in the previous hundred years. 

Measurements of London’s atmosphere show the city is releasing more of the potent greenhouse gas methane, primarily from natural gas leaks.

Central Amazonia’s tall trees are impacted by periods of high maximum temperatures and then shed their leaves and branches. 

Nighttime fires have become more intense in recent decades, as hot, dry nights are more commonplace, according to a new CIRES Earth Lab-led study.

America’s tradition of persecuting wolves has resumed. And although it’s mostly happening on federal land, the Biden administration appears singularly unmoved and unconcerned.

One balmy summer evening in mid-July last year, the tiny river Kyll flowing out of the Eifel Mountains in Germany turned from its normal placid flow into a raging torrent that engulfed several riverside towns in its path.