The Aweme borer is a yellowish-brown moth with an inch-and-a half wingspan. In the often-colorful world of lepidopterology — the study of moths and butterflies — it’s not particularly flashy, but it is exceedingly rare. 

As the global climate continues to change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten regions all over the world, accurate weather forecasting is becoming more important than ever.

The slow-moving storm has been pulling in tropical moisture.

World governments agreed in the late 1980s to protect Earth’s ozone layer by phasing out ozone-depleting substances emitted by human activities, under the Montreal Protocol.

As climate change affects habitats, fisheries species face change, too.

The remnants of Hurricane Larry dropped abundant snowfall on Greenland just as the summer melt season was coming to an end.

While wildfires are a natural part of California’s landscape, a severe drought, coupled with extreme temperatures, have sustained several major fires for much of August.

Clouds of smoke and ash from wildfires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020 triggered widespread algal blooms in the Southern Ocean thousands of miles downwind to the east, a new Duke University-led study by an international team of scientists finds.

By mid-century, once dominant winter sports may slowly be replaced by activities less dependent on perfect winter conditions according to recently released research about changing patterns of recreation on public lands.

University of Tsukuba researchers apply pressure and atmospheric circulation modeling to identify that warm sea surface temperature conditions in the Indian Ocean were a major factor in the anomalously warm winter and extreme summer rainfall in East Asia in 2019-20