Rain gauges are plentiful around the United States, but that’s not the case elsewhere in the world – particularly over oceans and sparsely populated areas. 

As nations prepare to meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics Treaty, a new study has revealed the discovery of synthetic plastic fibres in air, seawater, sediment and sea ice sampled in the Antarctic Weddell Sea. 

A new study finds that bird species with extreme or uncommon combinations of traits face the highest risk of extinction.

Associate Research Scientist Kara Lamb grew up reading her father’s Scientific American magazines.

The heat wave that hammered western North America in late June and early July 2021 was not just any midsummer event.

Rising air temperatures due to global warming melt glaciers and polar ice caps.

A new report coauthored by University of Waterloo professor Maria Strack has provided the most comprehensive assessment of the world's peatlands to date and identified actions governments should take to improve their protection, restoration and sustainable management.

Dieback of the Amazon rainforest has long been touted as a possible climate tipping point, even though only a small minority of Earth System Models were projecting dieback. 

Scientists on a research vessel in Antarctica watched the front of a glacier disintegrate and their measurements ‘went off the scale’. 

Dust particles from central South America were the most important source of iron in the South Pacific during the last two ice ages.