Aircraft collecting data from clouds of smoke have revealed surprising effects of wildfires on the ground.

The application deadline is October 31.

A handful of countries, including the United States, may emit half the world’s greenhouse gases by 2050.

The developer of a controversial hydroelectric project in Chile has filed for bankruptcy, blaming Andean glacier retreat and droughts for low water flows.

Plants in the same groups often show similar drought resistance independent of the climate in which they grow.

Oceanographer Richard Spinrad of NOAA participated in a town hall and discussed funding opportunities with Columbia Climate School researchers.

Sea ice in the Southern Ocean retreats each year much faster than it develops. This has puzzled scientists, but the explanation turns out to be simple.

Estimates that predate satellite imagery fill in a missing link and imply that oceans and land have been removing carbon from the air more efficiently than previously thought.

Lisa Goddard, longtime director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, has died.

The past eight years are the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880.