Rainfall may look chaotic from one month to the next, but beneath the noise, the climate system is carrying a...

Florida State University researchers have helped uncover a hidden chapter in the history of the Americas—one that suggests mammals began...

A 113-million-year-old marine extinction may have been caused by a chemical crisis that has a striking modern parallel. By analyzing...

Arctic permafrost is often described as a frozen vault of climate-damaging carbon, but new research suggests that much of the...

The Arctic is often portrayed as a land of lightning, frozen silence and fires driven almost entirely by a warming...

Biochar, the carbon-rich material made by heating wood, crop residues, and organic waste, may have a hidden control knob that...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Shark fins have long occupied a peculiar place in the global seafood economy: rare enough to...

The Southern Ocean is changing faster than scientists can fully measure it—and a new European research project is preparing an...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, have become one of Europe’s most closely watched drinking-water contaminants. Often called...

What is the state of global lake water quality? A global assessment covering 16,409 lakes across 145 countries reveals that...