For much of May 2023, wildland fires raged in western Canada. In the last few days of the month, blazes flared up thousands of miles to the east as well, in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

In the United States, low-income immigrant and minority children often live in environments that have highly polluted air.

The world is getting hotter, causing shifts in seasonal patterns and increasing the amount of extreme weather such as severe droughts and heat waves, which can affect crop yields and food supplies.

A tiny Central American country is charting a path to slowing climate change, while boosting the economy and making communities safer.

The ground beneath Antarctica’s most vulnerable glacier has been mapped for the first time, helping scientists to better understand how it is being affected by climate change.

Concern is rising about tipping points in the Antarctic region (Armstrong et al., 2022). 

For remote sensing scientists who track the movement of smoke plumes, May 2023 has been a wild, memorable month due to extreme fire activity in northwestern Canada.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is shrinking, with many glaciers across the region retreating and melting at an alarming rate. 

One of the primary drivers of climate change is excess greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Tiny foxes — each no bigger than a five-pound housecat — inhabiting the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California were saved from extinction in 2016.