Environment

Researchers at University College Cork have published a national index of how exposed the Republic of Ireland's coast is to climate hazards, rating about 8,575 kilometers of shoreline at 250-meter…

Rivers flowing from all 19 valley glaciers sampled in central Svalbard carried dissolved methane at levels high enough for the gas to escape into the air, peaking at 425 times the amount the water…

Suppose the world one day takes more carbon dioxide out of the air than it puts in. Emissions fall to zero, then go past it. The air thins, the planet stops warming and slowly starts to cool. What do…

In 2019, soot accounted for 35% of the black carbon that human activity put into the air, up from 16% in 1750, according to a global emissions inventory published Sept. 8 in Nature Geoscience. Black…

Sunlight-driven chemistry in the top few meters of exposed Antarctic ice appears to change the greenhouse gases trapped inside it, Giyoon Lee and Jinho Ahn of Seoul National University and colleagues…

For billions of years, the natural world has acted as a silent engineer. It methodically discarded ineffective solutions and refined the good ones. As a result, these mechanisms became so effective…

The map of what America grows has been sliding north. As the climate has warmed, corn and soybean have pushed farther toward the Dakotas, and the good years have moved with them. A paper published…

Closing a stretch of seabed off Oregon to trawlers to make room for floating wind farms would change the groundfish catch very little, and would not hand the fishery much of a bonus either, according…

The World Meteorological Organization published its annual Air Quality and Climate Bulletin on Sept. 7, reporting that smoke from wildfires and ground-level ozone formed during heatwaves are pushing…

Replacing beef and lamb with poultry across 181 countries would cut the world's food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 37% over the rest of this century and still leave the 1.5 °C climate target…

The eastern Ross Sea off Antarctica went through an extreme marine heatwave in the southern summer of 2022–23 and then grew its largest plankton bloom since satellite measurements of ocean color…

Ask a hydrologist how much water is under a given field in Mali, or under a village in Siberia, and the honest answer is usually a shrug. Groundwater is the largest store of liquid fresh water on…