"A year like this gives us a glimpse at how rising temperatures and heavier rains can impact our society and stress critical infrastructure over the next decade."

We can expect that the science of fire should intersect with fire use by First Peoples, because an understanding of fire that enabled cultures to coexist with it for at least 65,000 years must have its roots in scientific reality. Our understanding of that relationship is, however, deeply troubled.

Home security footage shows a family dog chasing a mountain lion in the northern California community of Morada.

People are being exposed to ever more frequent and intense extreme events, the Copernicus Climate Change Service has warned.

A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.

Dozens of fires are burning as the state braces for a potentially terrifying bushfire season. The RFS is firing up a new weapon to help save homes and lives.

Ancient and fragile papyrus samples are at risk of being damaged by fungi, but a wasabi-based treatment can disinfect them without damage

Ancient bones at a fish processing factory reveal the civilisation may have caused the beasts to go extinct in the Mediterranean 2,000 years ago

An unidentified man picked up the bison calf after it was separated from its mother as the herd crossed the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park.

An English Heritage site found over 50 tweezers during a dig in Wroxeter, England, highlighting the Romans' obsession with "manscaping."

A 75 percent reduction is needed to limit warming to 1.5 C, new report says.

Around 60 per cent of people say they would be prepared to spend more for products from welfare-friendly farming systems.

What that giant clock in NYC’s Union Square is counting down to.

A new study concludes that Antarctica is already being and will continue to be affected by more frequent and severe extreme weather events, a known byproduct of human-caused climate change.

The bridges were created in part to protect endangered species like the ocelot and...

It's been as much as 40 or more degrees above average, and as hot as it usually gets in summer, in some parts of South America.

Conservation measures over the past 30 years have failed to stop the decline of insects on British farmland, a new report shows. Populations of bees, spiders, ground beetles and hoverflies have disappeared twice as fast in areas intensely farmed for crops, according to the paper, which looked at citizen science data on more than 1,500 invertebrate species.

Parts of the US are expected to see record temperatures on Sunday, with warnings of "dangerous" heat levels into next week across the south-west. Nearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories, from Florida to California and up to Washington state. The country's National Weather Service (NWS) has urged people not to underestimate the risk to life.

Tally rises to 27,000 but is still a far cry from former half a million, and Javan and Sumatran rhino remain critically endangered

When you hear news reports about volcanoes spewing lava and ash, you may worry about the people nearby. In fact, almost one in ten people around the world live within 100 kilometres of an active volcano. For those living close to volcanoes, farming on their fertile soils, or visiting their spectacular landscapes, it is crucial to understand the drivers of eruption.