The Hollywood star is backing environmental activists who fear endangered species will be put at risk when bauxite mining ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

The evidence is mounting that vast changes are not only possible, but increasingly likely as the Earth warms. But how close ...