As sea levels rise, coastal wetlands around the world are expected to shrink – and researchers at the University of British Columbia have found this could put the world’s shorebirds and their critical habitat at risk.

Extreme heat has become more common—as both research and lived experience show—but when it arrives is a different question.

The historic droughts of 2023 and 2024 in the Amazon reduced river flows and altered the composition of rainfall in the region.

The work is part of a multiyear effort to develop a distributed sensor network for relaying data collected from this critical region.

Climate scientist Sai Ravela is using games to help coastal communities find creative adaptations to climate change.

The central north Amazon, with extensive areas of high forest cover, natural savannas and vast and important indigenous territories, was not previously considered as being the most affected by climate change.

Wildfires in the Mediterranean region are becoming drastically more intense. 

The Antarctic ozone layer is recovering, a major environmental success following the Montreal Protocol. 

A strong earthquake near the Arctic island of Jan Mayen triggered a massive rock avalanche in March 2025. 

If there were an apex predator among fires, tropical peatland fires would be a top contender.