Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, inspired by biomolecules found in cold-tolerant organisms, are developing novel materials ...

Overview: A Landmark Year for Biodiversity The 12-month period from February 2025 to February 2026 was one of the most consequential in IUCN’s history. Against a backdrop of rapidly accelerating ...

Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...

New research shows that fires in northern forests are releasing far more carbon than global climate models have been tracking.

Nearly a foot of snow has melted. The deep freeze that sent temperatures across the region plummeting to below zero has warmed to a balmy 55 degrees on a sunny February day. As Matt ...

Snowy owls are beautiful and lovable, just ask any Harry Potter fan. But paparazzi are making their life difficult, and ...

Because of western warmth, this past meteorological winter preliminarily ranks as the second-warmest winter on record for the contiguous United States.

It is a double-edged sword. As the planet heats up, more of us are turning up and turning to air conditioning to keep us cool. The trouble is that, as well as consuming vast amounts of electricity, AC ...

The infamous weather pattern is actually partly influencing our weather as February ends. And it may again throughout the month of March.

Northern wildfires may be unleashing hidden reservoirs of ancient carbon — and climate models are missing much of it.

Greenland's largest glacier, Jakobshavn Glacier, may be edging closer to a critical threshold as meltwater runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet accelerates in ways not seen in over a century, according ...