The Environment

Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within...

Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado Boulder and Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall...

Extreme heat is breaking global records: Why this isn’t ‘just summer,’ and what climate change has to do with it Mathew Barlow, UMass Lowell and Jeffrey...

What is a heat dome? A meteorologist explains the weather phenomenon baking the northeast quarter of the US William Gallus, Iowa State UniversityHeat domes, like the...

Scott Jasechko, University of California, Santa Barbara; Debra Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Richard Taylor, UCL If you stand at practically any point...

Robert Marsh, University of Southampton Amid news of lethal heatwaves across the Northern Hemisphere comes the daunting prospect of a climate disaster on an altogether...

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, is showing up in pregnant women living near farm fields – that raises health concerns Cynthia Curl, Boise...

Michael P. Moore, University of Colorado Denver and James Stroud, Georgia Institute of Technology Climate change is threatening the survival of plants and animals around...

As climate change warms rivers, they are running out of breath – and so could the plants and animals they harbor Li Li (李黎), Penn State As...

Ian Enochs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The water off South Florida is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) in mid-July, and scientists are already...