News reports regularly remind us that the environment is under threat from a raft of climate change effects including loss of biodiversity, melting ice sheets and devastating ‘climate fires’.

Repeated catastrophic ice discharges from western North America into the North Pacific contributed to, and perhaps triggered, hemispheric-scale changes in the Earth’s climate during the last ice age, new research published online today in Science reveals.

The Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica is a region where many of the world’s carbon-rich deep waters can rise back up to the surface.

It’s an amazing moment when a topic learned in the classroom comes to life.

Thunderstorms are weather disturbances characterized by concentrations of thunder, lightning and fierce winds.

In summer 2020, a huge piece of ice split off from the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf.

Scientists have found that ocean events, such as a heatwave and a recent storm, can contribute to strengthening hurricanes.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego report in a new study a way to improve groundwater monitoring by using a remote sensing technology (known as InSAR), in conjunction with climate and land cover data, to bridge gaps in the understanding of sustainable groundwater in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

NASA infrared imagery revealed that Hurricane Marie is rapidly growing stronger and more powerful. 

As the climate trends warmer and drier, global food security increasingly hinges on crops’ ability to withstand drought.