Condition status score is “fair,” but reefs are vulnerable and declining.

Warm, moist rivers of air may have continent-wide effects and influence climate change.

New research has found that the coronavirus lockdown led to dramatic changes in water consumption in England and Wales, and that some of these are likely to continue even after the pandemic.

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Plastic has become ubiquitous in modern life and its accumulation as waste in the environment is sounding warning bells for the health of humans and wildlife.

Across the continental United States, massive, often-devastating precipitation events — the kind that climate scientists have long called “hundred-year storms” — could become three times more likely and 20% more severe by 2079.

Biologists used to studying endangered Southern Resident killer whales spent almost a week in September on a whole different kind of effort.

August wildfires burned tens of thousands of acres in seven UC natural reserves, including a quarter of UC Berkeley’s Hastings Natural History Reservation in Carmel Valley.

The category 4 storm caused deadly flooding and landslides in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala.

With less than a month remaining in the Atlantic hurricane season, the formation of Subtropical Storm Theta on November 10 over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean made the 2020 season the most active on record.