Research led by the University of Oxford has found that rapid economic growth brought major gains [...]

Every year millions of people worldwide suffer from disasters in the aftermath of extreme natural events. [...]

Every US$1 invested in tackling climate change and air pollution together can generate around US$15 in [...]

A catastrophic rock-ice avalanche that transitioned into a debris flood in the Himalayas along the Nepal–China [...]

The WMO State of Global Water Resources report is a comprehensive science-based annual assessment of the [...]

El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming [...]

Report puts best-case scenario peak temperature rise at 1.8°C; others suggest over 2°C. Above 1.5°C, climate [...]

Interdisciplinary study involving researchers from Mainz University connects drought across the world’s wheat-growing regions with global [...]

Framing cleanup efforts as a way to meet people, exercise can boost pro-environmental behaviors. People might [...]

The summers of recent years have been hot, but not unusual from a meteorological perspective. According [...]

From Alaska to Siberia, canopies of boreal forests shield the frozen ground from deeper thawing. This [...]

AWI researchers have, for the first time, been able to measure how much carbon from thawing [...]

The project ‘Development of a green roof element with a closed-loop system and heat pump connection’ [...]

Invasive alien species are one of the world’s largest drivers of species extinction. However, previous global [...]

Hereon coordinates research on environmental pollution in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica The international research program [...]

Airborne particulate matter from the deserts of North Africa is reaching Europe in ever-increasing quantities. This [...]