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 ...

High water levels can cause swift currents that make shipping barges difficult to maneuver and can overwhelm lock and dam systems. Such conditions have become more common since 1960, according to a ...

An olive tree in Ni’lin, a town in the West Bank, caught fire after a tear gas grenade detonated during a Palestinian demonstration against land confiscation by Israel in 2016. Credit: יורם שורק via ...

Two observers in southeast Alaska log monitoring data. Credit: Lee House, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card 2025 NOAA released this year’s Arctic Report Card on 16 December at AGU’s Annual Meeting 2025 in New ...

Many exoplanets are “hot Jupiters” like this artist’s impression, planets similar to Jupiter orbiting closer to their host star than Mercury does to our Sun. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Our Sun is about ...

Astronauts on the Moon (like Harrison H. Schmitt, pictured collecting lunar samples in 1972) could one day live in lunar habitats made of “mooncrete.” Credit: NASA/JSC, Public Domain NASA’s Artemis ...

New research analyzes the influence of changes in rainfall to Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Credit: Richard Mortel/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The Serengeti is one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth ...

A spatial distribution of clusters showing variation in ambient heat exposure. The colors represent the 85th percentile of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) distribution (1979-2021). WBGT accounts for ...

Pilots prepare to fly microbial sampling systems into smoke from high-intensity crown fires in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. Credit: Krista Bonfantine, University of Idaho Extreme wildfire events ...

Since the first agricultural revolution, circa 10,000 BCE, humanity has adapted its farming practices to meet climatic variation. The genesis of early farming is even thought to have resulted from a ...