Recent study is the first to analyze on a large scale the relationship between food insecurity among smallholder farms in Africa and Asia, rainfall patterns, and a range of interventions

Ecological air conditioning offers short-term protection from a warming climate

Improved datasets show that Arctic warmed six times faster than the global average during 'global warming hiatus'

A new study demonstrates that many ecosystem functions perform better in forests with a higher level of biodiversity

The Pacific Islands region is the warmest of the global ocean. As there are no drastic seasons, the animals in these regions may find changing conditions to be more of a shock.

The melting of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet likely caused about 20 feet of sea level rise and big changes in ocean temperature and circulation

Global annual temperature records show there were 17 record hot years from 1861 to 2005

Finding opens new avenue for offsetting rising greenhouse gases

Scientists from NASA and NOAA announced that the hole in Earth's ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September was the smallest observed since 1988

An increase in extreme rainfall makes it more difficult for UV light to kill pathogens