McKibben's book ignited the modern environmental movement. Now he's acknowledged as the godfather of a worldwide campaign.

Trees can tell us a lot from the stories etched into their bark. One Charlotte artist has captured some of those stories ...

Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly will be again, as bouts of extreme drought, followed by deluge, become ...

Earth’s climate is heating up faster than expected, and a major culprit is the changing behavior of clouds over oceans. As ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

The rapid melting of Arctic sea ice is not just a regional phenomenon—it is influencing weather patterns across the globe. A ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

Victor Jimenez discusses cumulative pollution impacts in Southwest Detroit and his role with the Michigan League of ...

But as Google has replaced them with lithium-ion cells, the benefits have been multiplying. Google says the cells it’s using ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk. New research, published in Nature Sustainability on ...

Borneo may seem like a world away from Indiana, but the fate of its rainforests has direct consequences for Hoosiers.

The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is ...