A new generation of climate scenarios has set aside RCP8.5, which projected a nearly 5°C rise in global temperatures by 2100.

A group of 42 leading climate scientists has warned that new approaches to measuring methane emissions could weaken global climate action. Researchers say these methods may allow countries to dilute ...

Like covid-19 and mpox before it, the decision to relabel PCOS as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome is a welcome one – ...

New research shows rising ocean temperatures may cause corals to lose oxygen and die before bleaching becomes visible during heatwaves.

Rice has always been a heat-loving plant, at home in the warm, wet landscapes of Asia. It spread with the first farmers, fed ...

El Niño is coming. And its impacts may last far longer than it does.

Researchers modelled future ranges for numerous species of vascular plants, those with water- and nutrient-carrying tissues.

This April, the international scientific committee that designs climate scenarios for the United Nations did something it ...

For decades, the conversation around microplastics focused on what they were doing to our oceans, our soil, and our bodies.

A shaded creek winds through fern forest along the Lilydale Falls Trail in northern Tasmania. As hikers pass by, researcher Todd Walsh reaches into the slow-moving water and beneath a rock to pull out ...

You never have to admit you're wrong when you're demonstrably wrong. Nor do you have to be concerned with lack of support, ...