As the planet warms due to excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a solution for drawing down that carbon – or at least a major part of it – lies silently below us.

Himalayan glaciers have largely retreated, and lakes now cover the area where the glacier tongue was in earlier times.

Researchers from Tohoku University have discovered a new petit-spot volcano at the oldest section of the Pacific Plate.

Analyzing decades of records, the researchers discovered that the accompanying rainfall tended to be more severe after a hurricane had abated to the category of a tropical storm.

Many East Coast woodlands along the East Coast are gradually turning to ghost forests, as saltwater rises up to 5 millimeters a year in some places, killing tree roots.

The relationship between aerosols (particulate matter) and their cooling effect on the Earth due to the formation of clouds is more than twice as strong as was previously thought.

Global carbon emissions are set to grow more slowly in 2019, with a decline in coal burning offset by strong growth in natural gas and oil use worldwide – according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA), University of Exeter and the Global Carbon Project.

Tiny microplastic particles are about as common in the ocean today as plastic is in our daily lives.

Tropical Storm 07A has developed in the eastern Arabian Sea, one day after Tropical Storm 06A developed in the western part of the sea. 

The amount of carbon transported via Finnish rivers to the Baltic Sea has risen substantially in the past few decades.