Data from some of the world's leading scientific agencies shows that global warming has sped up markedly since the mid‑2010s.

A new study shows hot, dry and windy weather that fuels extreme wildfires has nearly tripled worldwide in 45 years.

A coalition of health and environmental groups is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, challenging the rescinding of a ...

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

Snowy owls that once glided across wide open spaces of the Arctic tundra are seeing their homes shrink under thickening ...

Materials describing the past and future of Glacier National Park were reportedly flagged for removal by the Trump administration as it continues its erasure of facts at national parks across the ...

For decades, a dominant argument for protecting forests has focused on carbon. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, store it in wood ...

Scientists around the world have been scrambling to fill in gaps and make space on their servers for American data sets, ...

It may be the most enduring love story in the shorebird world, two birds coming together from different parts of the hemisphere. Hudsonian whimbrels are famously faithful, often mating for life and ...

A new study reports that climate warming can increase soil carbon accumulation in boreal Sphagnum peatlands by boosting plant ...

President Donald Trump has been voicing interest in exploiting Greenland’s mineral wealth since his first term in office, when he started talking about possibly seizing the autonomous territory. His ...