The aquatic world is being increasingly compromised by an overwhelming array of human-caused noise.

In recent years, wildfires on the West Coast have become larger and more damaging. 

When a team of scientists began analyzing events that influenced the world’s climate in 2020, they made sure to consider the pandemic-related lockdowns that reduced emissions and led to clearer skies over many cities.

As the seasons turn from spring, to summer, to fall – farmers plant crops, monitor their growth and harvest them.

Ever-warmer summers are among the challenges confronting athletes competing in the Olympic Games.

There are a few possible reasons why the phytoplankton-rich waters of this high-latitude sea appear both green and turquoise blue.

At a local scale, hypoxic events may pose a more severe threat to coral reefs than the warming events that cause mass bleaching.

Skies turned hazy from Pittsburgh to Washington to Boston, as smoke from fires in Canada poured into the U.S. Northeast.

Forecasts are higher resolution, providing hourly observations at the individual beach level.

To study extreme heat events, experts use observations and models to draw a picture of how often events of a given intensity occur in the present compared to the past or the future.