Microorganisms play a foundational role in maintaining Earth's ecosystems by driving biogeochemical cycles, supporting plant and animal health, and ...

Penguin poop provides ammonia for cloud formation in coastal Antarctica, potentially helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change in the region.

With the US in retreat from climate negotiations, China's Xi Jinping could become the next green global leader ...

Researchers look to extremes in the past to study how the system reacts to imbalances. They detail an overlooked mechanism for how the ocean can help stabilize massive releases of carbon into the ...

Jonathan Shanklin, a meteorologist and an emeritus fellow for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), helped discover the hole in the ozone layer in 1985 along with Joe Farman and Brian G. Gardiner.

How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature ...

As global temperatures rise, many species are scrambling to adapt—or risk extinction. Scientists refer to these animals as ...

As the cofounder and leader of the World Weather Attribution initiative, climate scientist Friederike Otto is painfully aware ...

What is the most important cause of climate change? Human activity is the main cause of climate change. People burn fossil fuels and convert land from forests to agriculture. Since the beginning of ...

Unlike heat waves and floods, research on climate change and tornadoes is still in its infancy. An enormous supercell thunderstorm with a large tornado touching ground seen in South Dakota in 2015.