Assessment outlines priority actions needed to answer this timely question This report highlights the remaining work ...

The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly ...

When people think about invasive species, they often conjure images of large feral pigs or Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades wreaking havoc on the environment. They’re not necessarily wrong.

A baited camera captured a sleeper shark in the Southern Ocean for the first time. Sharks have survived mass extinctions, ...

Last September, I traveled to this far north outpost as part of a research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Penguins Are Starting Families Sooner in Antarctica, and It’s Not Good News ...

Northern Japan, especially the island of Hokkaido, is home to some of the snowiest cities in the world. Sapporo, the island's ...

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established in 1946 to prevent the collapse of several species that had been hunted to near extinction over the preceding centuries. In 1986, after long ...

Yesterday, an international team of researchers from various disciplines set off aboard the German research vessel METEOR for an expedition along the west coast of Africa, led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz ...

From bleaching coral reefs to fading forests and duller birds, scientists warn Earth is losing its colours under climate stress, but could these subtle shifts reveal deeper environmental truths?

Donald Trump has revoked the official doctrine that carbon dioxide is a danger to human health. This removes the ...

The experimental conservation project aims to create alternative spawning habitat for Great Lakes whitefish, which have suffered steep population declines.