Tropical deforestation is a major contributor to climate change and loss of local and global ecosystem functions. 

The study, published today in the journal Nature Communications, uses radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of plants collected at the edges of 30 ice caps on Baffin Island, west of Greenland.

A little-known episode in Canadian history will find a national audience Sunday, thanks to a team of University of Windsor filmmakers.

Because of its unique dynamic and thermodynamic forcing, the Tibetan Plateau is an active region for convective systems, with ‘popcorn-like’ cloud systems frequently occurring and developing over its central and eastern parts. 

If ship hulls were coated with special high-tech air trapping materials, up to one percent of global CO2 emissions could be avoided. 

Even though climate change is expected to reduce the total amount of U.S. snowfall this century, it's unlikely to significantly rein in the most powerful nor'easters that pummel the East Coast, new research indicates.

A new study examining the carbon footprint of what more than 16,000 Americans eat in a day has good news for environmentally conscious consumers: diets that are more climate-friendly are also healthier.

Around 56 million years ago, global temperatures spiked. Researchers at Uppsala University and in the UK now show that a major explosive eruption from the Red Hills on the Isle of Skye may have been a contributing factor to the massive climate disturbance. 

Early in the evening of August 12, 2017, heat and smoke from an intense wildfire burning in the forests of British Columbia began mushrooming skyward, sucking up ash, blazing wood and vegetation, and water vapor from lakes and streams below.

A team of scientists and engineers has for the first time successfully drilled over two kilometres through the ice sheet in West Antarctica using hot water.