Butterflies are often considered bellwether species for climate change, and to retain the cooler climates they need for their life cycles, species around the world have been shifting their habitats ...

Dymer Creek (foreground) flows into the Chesapeake Bay near the town of White Stone, Va. The pH of coastal waterways such as the Chesapeake is influenced by both the acidification of the ocean and the ...

This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows the planet and its rings in dazzling clarity. The planet’s seasonal north polar haze gleams in bright ...

The Amazon saw its worst wildfire season in decades in 2024. New research examines the consequences. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA Wildfires in the rainy, humid Amazon might once have seemed unlikely, but ...

The Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, grew dry and patchy during a 2016 drought. Credit: Anishdayal, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Streamflow drought—when substantially less water than usual ...

Canoes rest on the banks of a rice lake in the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation, in Minnesota. Credit: Madeline Nyblade Wild rice, also known as manoomin in Ojibwemowin, the language of the Ojibwe ...

The Moon’s farside is heavily cratered and mostly lacks the dark volcanic basins of the familiar nearside. The South Pole–Aitken basin, the oldest and largest crater on the Moon, is the large dark ...

When oil wells, such as this one in Alberta, Canada, are abandoned and left unplugged they become “orphan wells,” that pose risks to nearby groundwater. Credit: Jason Woodhead, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 This ...

Simulated image showing gigantic streams of helium escaping from the atmosphere of planet HAT-P-32b as it orbits its host star. Credit: M. MacLeod (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and A.

The prevailing view of mammal activity in ecosystems is that they have marginal impacts to services like greenhouse gas emissions. However, that is not always the case, especially with large, feral ...

Soil cracks when it dries out, and these desiccation cracks can enhance the release of greenhouse gases. Credit: José Ignacio Pompé/Unsplash There’s perhaps no more universal image of drought than the ...

Most climate-concerned people know that trees can help slow global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but a recent study published in the journal Science shows the climate cooling ...