Climate-driven extreme river discharge is projected to prolong and intensify coastal hypoxia, with stronger stratification and spatially uneven oxygen loss, suggests a study using an event-based ...

Decades of independent observations and improved methods strengthen the evidence that greenhouse gases are changing Earth’s ...

Along temperate coasts, the effects of climate change—including sea-level rise, erosion, and more frequent and stronger ...

The fact that ecosystems change is nothing new. What is new, however, is the speed and scale at which new species communities ...

The world's oceans are being rapidly transformed as climate change intensifies. Corals are bleaching, sea levels are rising, and seawater is becoming more acidic—making life difficult for shellfish ...

Climate change is rapidly altering our world in profound ways. Human activity has already increased the earth’s temperature by about 2°F since 1880. As the planet continues to get hotter, through a ...

Climate change doesn’t only alter the ways people live, work, and eat. It can also force them to leave their homes behind. Climate change’s consequences are worse in many less-developed countries with ...

Here’s what we know about the record-setting El Niño on a record-hot planet, and the most important questions scientists are trying to answer. The tropical Pacific has seen heat build for months as a ...

Pakistan contributes just 1% of global greenhouse emissions annually, but faces some of the highest risks from climate disasters in the world. Unnatural disasters fueled by climate change are ...

How we address the climate crisis impacts our future. A new visualization shows us versions of what could come. A recent report by an international body of scientists exposes the sheer gravity of the ...

Climate change is far more consequential for universities than many recognise. Climate change is a systemic risk and requires a systemic response. The challenge we face is to simultaneously reduce the ...