As the planet warms, retreating glaciers contribute to the formation of unstable lakes, prone to hazardous outburst floods.

Humans, wildlife, and the environment are all interconnected and play a role in one another’s health and well-being.

New methodology creates the first consistent global framework for estimating the carbon flux specifically for forests.

Texas A&M researchers have shown that water treatment has the potential to remove nearly all viruses that have an "outer fortress" from drinking water.

Researchers have found new evidence that global warming is affecting the size of commercial fish species, documenting for the first time that juvenile fish are getting bigger, as well as confirming that adult fish are getting smaller as sea temperatures rise.

The instrumental climate record is the cultural heritage of humankind, the result of the diligent work of many generations of people all over the world.

The economic value of insect pollinators was $34 billion in the U.S. in 2012, much higher than previously thought, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.

For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity.

The Arctic Ocean was covered by up to 900 m thick shelf ice and was filled entirely with freshwater at least twice in the last 150,000 years.

The lockdowns and reduced societal activity related to the COVID-19 pandemic affected emissions of pollutants in ways that slightly warmed the planet for several months last year, according to a new study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).