The Gulf of Mexico dead zone, or hypoxic area, is an area of low oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life.

Globally rising temperatures and the browning of lakes can both inhibit and promote algal growth in northern lakes.

New research published in the June 3, 2022 journal Science reveals that 44 percent of Earth’s land area – some 64 million square kilometers (24.7 million square miles) requires conservation to safeguard biodiversity.

A University of Guelph project to revive an endangered butterfly species has made a big, fluttery leap forward.   

NASA is ground-truthing data generated by its next-generation earth imaging technology with a major research campaign hosted at three of UC Santa Barbara's natural reserves. 

Short-lived aerosols from smoke helped researchers pinpoint some of the key processes drawing levels of carbon monoxide down.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund the Collaborative Research Center CRC 1537 "ECOSENSE" from July 1, 2022. 

Coral reefs have a complex soundscape – and even experts have to conduct painstaking analysis to measure reef health based on sound recordings.

The effects of our warming climate are seen across a multitude of measures, usually as incremental changes: more frequent extreme weather, heatwaves, droughts and wildfires.

For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet.