An international study has revealed new evidence to help understand the consequences of habitat loss on natural communities.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have charted a spike in food insecurity since the introduction of Nutrition North Canada in 2011, calling into question the federal program’s approach and claims that it has been successful.

Borrowing one of meteorology’s great euphemisms, this spring has been “an active one” in much of the country.

The continental United States just experienced its wettest 12 months on record, receiving 6.25 inches of rainfall above the mean, according to a new report by NASA’s Earth Observatory. 

It can be said that marine plankton has now entered the Anthropocene epoch.

Parts of Alaska’s mountainous Brooks Range were likely transported from Greenland and a stretch of the Canadian Arctic much farther to the east, according to a series of Dartmouth-led studies detailing over 300 million years of Arctic geologic history.

New research connects recent changes in the movement of North Atlantic right whales to decreased food availability and rising temperatures in Gulf of Maine’s deep waters. 

Once seen as spooky sci-fi, geoengineering to halt runaway climate change is now being looked at with growing urgency. 

A new study published today in Nature Climate Change finds coral reefs are under threat from ocean acidification.

Location matters for species struggling to survive under a changing climate.