Antibiotic resistance – one of the biggest threats to global health, according to the World Health Organization – occurs when germs learn how to defeat the drugs designed to kill them.

I had just returned from walking our dog on Saturday afternoon when my husband informed me that the Cal-Wood Fire had broken out about 10 miles from our home in northwest Boulder County, Colorado.

In a clear, cold pool waits a patient predator, a monster of the river. He is voracious, ready to devour any prey which crosses his path, even if he has to fight for it.

A researcher from the Faculty of Science is among a large international group of experts who are recommending how to save nature from extraordinary biodiversity loss.

Millions of people in the state live in low-lying coastal areas where land subsidence is exacerbating the risks of sea level rise.

The Cameron Peak and August Complex fires have punctuated a year of natural drama in the American West.

The Arctic is warming faster than most places on Earth

New study finds seabird response to abrupt climate change 5,000 years ago transformed island ecosystems in the Falklands

Microplastic pollution exists on the seabed in Antarctica in the same quantities as in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, scientists have found.

The Atlas of Global Surface Water Dynamics illustrates the changes in the Earth’s lakes, rivers and wetlands over time.