Large-scale deforestation, forest restoration, forest fires, and droughts all have one thing in common: Most research on these topics focuses...
Climate change will drive an increase in summer air conditioning use in the United States likely to cause prolonged blackouts...
About 51 trillion microplastics are floating in the surface waters of oceans around the world. Originating from various types of...
Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest’s highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point that several decades...
A team led by the University of Bern was able to prove that the glaciers of the penultimate ice age...
Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is mostly thwarting an international effort to figure...
Cities that adopt roadside emissions sensors to detect high polluting vehicles, together with an enforcement program to inspect and repair...
Enhanced mountain warming coupled with reduced rainfall at high elevation may deplete stores of mountain snow and ice more rapidly...
Greenland’s immense ice sheet has lost enough ice in the past 20 years to submerge the entire United States in...
Even though Earth’s magnetic field shields us from solar wind and space weather, it doesn’t always offer complete protection. Researchers...
In 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled after making landfall over coastal Texas, pouring down record rainfall, flooding communities and becoming one...
For the first time, researchers at ETH Zurich have calculated in absolute figures the extent to which the production of...
