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New research shows Staghorn Coral may prove resilient to a single environmental stressor, but prove less resilient when facing a combination of stressors simultaneously.
Benefits include improved wildfire forecasts, safer drinking water, better flood predictions, sea floor mapping, and healthier fisheries.
New research finds that diffusion of sunlight from particles in Earth’s stratosphere could indirectly make marine clouds thousands of feet below more reflective.
Although wildland-urban interface fires make up a small fraction of total fire emissions, they are responsible for a much larger share of smoke-related premature deaths.
Humid heat often worsens health risks of extreme heat by compromising human cooling mechanisms (sweating).
A new study finds that while climate models have successfully captured many global warming trends, such as rising temperatures and more intense downpours, they still fall short in key areas.
Climate model overconfidence when predicting El Niño from March through May might result from models leaning too heavily on tropical Pacific signals.
As the adoption of cleaner-burning engines and electric vehicles drives fossil fuel emissions lower, volatile organic compounds from cooking are playing a significant role in ozone over Los Angeles.