Fifty-six million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), global temperatures rose by more than 5°C ...

Miles away from the ocean, projects are afoot to clean up salty groundwater and use it to grow crops. Some say it’s a costly pipe dream, others say it’s part of the future.

It’s usually cooler under a forest than outside the forest, but that natural temperature buffering didn’t make global warming any less strong during the last 45 years in an old-growth forest of Oregon ...

Data dashboards assist in understanding a community’s vulnerability to climate impacts, but input from the communities ...

Researchers found that the combination of heat waves and high PM2.5 pollution led to nearly 700,000 premature deaths in the ...

The bad odors of air pollution are difficult to regulate, but can pose significant health risks, reduce a home’s property ...

Climate models produce widely varying predictions for what will happen to this influential ocean current, but most models ...

The complexity of modeling the tropical Atlantic makes identifying the source of the ongoing seaweed blooms difficult.

Purple pigmentation in a diverse array of algae absorbs heat and creates a feedback loop responsible for 2% of total daily ...

The most populated cities in the country are slowly subsiding, posing risks to infrastructure and exacerbating flooding—and ...

Reoxygenation approaches have shown some success in lakes, but their potential risks must be examined carefully before ...

Over the past decade, the Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on the surface of Mars. This gas is often produced ...