A recent study published in Environmental Research Letters by a team of researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) finds that the rainy season of northern Central Asia, which occurs in May-July in present-day, will shift to March-May at the end of the 21st century.

Plants need nitrogen in the form of ammonium if they are to grow.

Though corals worldwide are threatened due to climate change and local stressors, the front lines of the battle are microscopic in scale.

The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans - where it can be stored for tens of millennia - is revealed in new research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).

A commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft has safely delivered two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

The devastating southeastern Australian bushfires that started last September spewed smoke and aerosols higher into the atmosphere than some Earth-observing instruments have ever measured.

Smoke from wildfires and agricultural burning has an important role in regulating climate.

How do we remember a phone number we were just about to call? 

An analysis of new climate model projections by Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes shows southwestern Australia and parts of southern Australia will see longer and more intense droughts due to a lack of rainfall caused by climate change.

Tiger snakes living in Perth’s urban wetlands are accumulating toxic heavy metals in their livers, suggesting that their habitats – critical, local ecosystems – are contaminated and the species may be suffering as a result.