Arctic permafrost stores massive amounts of organic carbon in its frozen soils and deeper deposits.

Driftwood plays a key role in Arctic coastal ecosystems: it stores carbon, stabilises coastlines and provides a habitat for animals.

Sarah Foote prepares a meal of black worms and tiny crickets for the endangered piping plovers she’s helping to rear—white, fluffy birds constantly on the move.

We mostly take it for granted that the position shown by our GPS is correct.

Every year, many millions of tons of plastic end up in the ocean. It’s a serious and rapidly increasing environmental problem.

As the world relies increasingly on critical minerals such as cobalt to fuel not just the green revolution but also everyday life, the United States may need to turn to domestic mining to meet its needs.

More than 100 engineers, utility leaders, scientists and public officials came together in the wake of January’s catastrophic Los Angeles firestorms to identify innovative strategies and emerging technologies that could build more resilient infrastructure, recognizing the broader challenges of growing climate and disaster risks.

Climate-driven oxygen loss in the Black Sea thousands of years ago triggered the expansion of microorganisms capable of producing the potent neurotoxin methylmercury.

A new study found compound drought-heatwave events are rippling farther and lasting through the night, raising risks for southwestern North America.

The timing of emissions reductions, even more so than the rate of reduction, will be key to avoiding catastrophic thresholds for ice-melt and sea-level rise, according to a new Cornell study.