Conservationists, ecologist Mark Schwartz wrote nearly three decades ago, faced a looming conundrum: Many species would likely be unable to keep up with the projected pace of climate change and could face extinction as a result.

For decades, the ice shelf helping to hold back one of the fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica has gradually thinned.

Climate change exerts great pressure for change on species and biodiversity. 

Satellites reveal fluctuation in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and releases from the Yangtze River.

Some climate activists advocate large-scale tree-planting campaigns in forests around the world to suck up heat-trapping carbon dioxide and help rein in climate change.

Researchers from Nara Institute of Science and Technology find that plants adapt to heat stress via an epigenetic memory mechanism, where JUMONJI proteins control small heat shock genes.

Researchers have made progress towards a G7 commitment to establish safe standards for the release of antimicrobials into the environment, by developing a new framework that establishes safe thresholds.

In a world-first, Monash University scientists have developed a new, environmentally friendly process that could drive the future production of green ammonia.

Every year, landslides – the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope – cause thousands of deaths, billions of dollars in damages, and disruptions to roads and power lines.

On Feb. 7, 2021, the Uttarakhand region of India experienced a humanitarian tragedy when a veritable wall of rock and ice collapsed and formed a debris flow that barreled down the Ronti Gad, Rishiganga and Dhauliganga river valleys.