Urban trees are widely seen as natural air purifiers, cooling streets while capturing particles and absorbing gaseous pollutants. But new...

Climate change science is about to become easier to use. Researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that a colossal cliff system once stretched across ancient North America, potentially exposing the deeply buried...

Culverts are among the least noticed pieces of infrastructure in the United States, yet a new study suggests that their...

Glaciers may look solid and immovable from a distance, but much of their most important structural damage is hidden beneath...

Massive hurricanes are no longer rare catastrophes separated by generations. As the climate warms, major storms are becoming more frequent,...

New York City’s efforts to reduce air pollution may have delivered an unexpected benefit to the city’s youngest residents: better...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — The Atlantic Ocean’s great conveyor belt may be doing far more than transporting heat around the planet....

A century of reconstructed ice data from the Laurentian Great Lakes is challenging the familiar story of inexorably shrinking winter...

Plants are widely regarded as important allies in a warming world because rising atmospheric carbon dioxide can allow them to...