Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

A research team led by Prof. An Zhisheng and Prof. Zhou Weijian from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

Scientists just found evidence that Antarctica was a rainforest when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Some 90 million years ago, the average daily temperature in Antarctica was about 53 degrees Fahrenheit, ...

Protecting and conserving our natural heritage, predicting weather and environmental conditions, preventing and managing pollution, promoting clean growth and a sustainable environment for present and ...

The purpose of the climate extremes maps is to highlight the occurrence of remarkably wet, cold or hot days in the Australian climate record. Weather and climate extremes can have significant social, ...

But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate change, and they are expected to get worse. Since negotiating the Paris accord in 2015, many of the 195 ...

As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP). Glaciers and ice sheets hold around ...

Additionally, astronomers speculated on neutron star land forms, paleontologists reported a previously unknown Cretaceous-era predator and a tech start-up is building a living seawall in Florida ...

According to their research, these creatures ruled the seventh level in a reconstructed Cretaceous food web ... fresh insights into how ecosystems recover from challenges such as climate change or ...