Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased ...

A new study warns that climate change is taking a devastating toll on human health, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths ...

Rivers release nearly 2 billion tons of CO₂ annually, and a new global study shows that nearly 60% is from ancient carbon. Ancient carbon, hundreds to thousands of years old, enters rivers through ...

Research published in Nature confirms that wind and solar power have low power density and thus impose huge environmental ...

As climate change rapidly transforms ecosystems, it threatens to wipe out vital species, potentially leading to ecosystem collapse. Islands, to which many species from elsewhere can’t disperse ...

People are losing an average of 15 to 17 minutes of sleep each night due to global warming, according to new research. And ...

The study also estimated that gas-powered vehicles cause at least twice as much environmental damage over their lifetimes as ...

Younger generations of Americans are increasingly citing climate change as making them reticent to have children, according to several studies.

The field of environmental studies examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world. Like environmental science, students of environmental studies learn about ecology, biology, ...

A recent study found that while trout in groundwater-fed streams did better than in surface water-fed streams, there was a widespread decline in populations of brook trout across the study area.