About a month after igniting on July 24, 2024, the Park fire charred nearly 670 square miles (170,00 hectares) of land in Northern California, according to a situation report from the National Interagency Fire Center. 

A new study sheds light on the vital role that the mixing of Atlantic and Arctic waters plays in sustaining the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is crucial for regulating Earth’s climate.

Climate change will move and reduce the land suitable for growing food and timber, putting the production of these two vital resources into direct competition, a new study has found.

Climate change will increase the risk of the foodborne illness from Salmonella enterica, according to a new study. 

The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest over large areas, according to research by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist who analyzed two major quakes in Alaska and California.

In a significant move toward marine conservation, the Congress is considering the OCTOPUS Act, a federal law that aims to ban commercial octopus farming in the United States.

Climate change is affecting ecosystems in many different ways.

I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the tomatoes don’t look good. Half of the plants are submerged in bins of water.

The layer of sea ice that caps the Arctic Ocean hits its maximum thickness during the long, dark polar night that accompanies winter.

A new study demonstrates how state-of-the-art masks can be used to assess metabolic and respiratory conditions.