When it comes to extreme weather, climate change usually gets all the attention. 

Even while skies are clearing over China, one type of particulate pollution continues to cause problems.

Large wildfires and severe heat events are happening more often at the same time, worsening air pollution across the western United States, a study led by Washington State University researchers has found.

Researchers studying coral reefs damaged by rising sea temperatures have discovered an unexpected ‘bright spot’ of hope for communities who depend upon them for food security.

A study of the correlation between temperature and mortality in the Indian city of Pune has found that cold, rather than heat, is by far the bigger killer. 

Adding just the right amount of sediment to the surface of a Connecticut salt marsh protects coastlines by promoting rapid plant growth, scientists from the University of Connecticut report in a new study published recently in Environmental Engineering.

The price of electricity along the West Coast is likely to spike over the next few decades because of more extreme weather events, new research suggests. 

Climate change and air pollution are two major societal problems. 

Hurricane-force winds whipped fires across drought-parched grasslands and into suburban neighborhoods.

A new Texas A&M AgriLife study shows the annual crop can sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide.