By analyzing the devastating floods that affected Emilia-Romagna, Italy, in 2023 and 2024, a team of researchers from CMCC – the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change – describes for the first time how a particular orographic configuration makes certain regions particularly prone to extreme flooding. 

A team led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has described a sustained and unprecedented decrease in the abundance of marine viruses in the northwestern Mediterranean over the last two decades. 

Until now, the slow weathering of silicate rocks has been considered as the main factor in climate regulation.

The Sahara Desert is one of the driest areas in the world.

The ninth 2025 global report of The Lancet on health and climate change was released on Oct. 29, 2025.

Currently unaccounted for, unremediated discharge from old mines can transport CO2 from bedrock to the atmosphere.

Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba this week as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record. 

The planet’s natural carbon sinks are reaching critical limits, absorbing fewer emissions than expected as decades of climate change has weakened their capacity, a new report warns.

To many people, nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is only known as a party drug or from the dentist. 

Karimah Preston is close to attaining her second degree in engineering. But when she first matriculated to North Carolina A&T University, where she would graduate with a bachelor’s degree in biological and biosystems engineering, she wasn’t considering engineering.