Lake whitefish in the upper Great Lakes are vanishing — not because they’ve stopped spawning, but because their young are failing to survive. In parts of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, harvests have ...

Marine scientists have investigated how coastal fish communities are changing with climate change and higher temperatures ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

The extreme rainfall that occurred in the Northeast on Monday could happen more often in the future as a result of climate ...

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

The global destruction of wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture and flood control, may mean the loss of $39 trillion ...

As global temperatures keep rising, humanity seems determined to sleepwalk into a world that is becoming increasingly hostile ...

Blending livelihood strategies based on what works at different times in specific environments has been key to human survival ...

A landmark report for the global agreement on wetlands paints a dire picture of the state of the world’s water bodies that ...

From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global ...

While supporting conservation research in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental with teams from the U.S.-based Columbia University ...

Trees take centuries to respond to change. But climate change is moving much faster, and forests may not survive the gap.