Learn how the carbon cycle works and how greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane disrupt it, shaping climate change ...
Abandoned fishing gear is fouling the water column throughout the world's oceans, in yet another symptom on the overfishing ...
Learn how climate change shifts weather patterns—driving more intense heat waves, floods, droughts, wildfires, and stronger storms through rising temperatures.
Learn how climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience differ—and why effective climate responses must integrate all three to manage risk and build stability.
Learn how climate risk is assessed under uncertainty, why uneven vulnerability matters, and how precautionary, risk-based decision-making guides climate action.
Understand climate change beyond the headlines—how greenhouse gases, feedback loops, tipping points, & risk shape Earth’s climate.
Climate tipping points are thresholds within Earth’s climate system beyond which change becomes self-reinforcing and, in some cases, irreversible on human timescales. Rather than unfolding gradually, ...
Rivers in Alaska’s Brooks Range run orange due to iron leaching out of melting permafrost combined with toxic concentrations ...
Proponents of EVs are worried that Trump's elimination of tax credits could kibosh U.S. leadership on the clean energy transition.
As climate change and growing electricity demand spark the search for new renewable energy, researchers have been recently looking at the ocean for answers. Among many promising marine energy ...
Bird populations in the United States are facing alarming declines. Since 1970, North America has lost approximately 2.9 billion birds, representing more than one in four of all birds. Birds act as ...
If we don’t make data centers for artificial intelligence more efficient soon, the environmental consequences could be dire… Credit: Pexels.com. The modern world hums with data, over 2.5 quintillion ...