As growing evidence shows that climate change will influence nearly every aspect of our health, a School of Social Work researcher is the first to explore how climate change may affect individuals who ...

The ozone layer, Earth's invisible shield against harmful ultraviolet radiation, sits quietly in the stratosphere between roughly 15 and 35 kilometers above our heads. For decades, scientists watched ...

Wildfires may disappear from the landscape within weeks, but their hidden effects on the soil can persist for decades. An ...

Last Thursday marked the first anniversary of the catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Lahaina on Hawaii’s island of Maui. The blaze claimed more than 100 lives and left more than 12,000 people without ...

Hurricane Milton is barreling towards Florida’s Gulf Coast, where it’s expected to make landfall tomorrow night. Meanwhile, folks across the southeast are still assessing the damages caused by ...

Pandemic recovery plans that invest in or subsidize fossil fuels will increase the spread of infectious diseases globally by contributing to climate change, according to a new report from The Lancet, ...

In a move to accelerate the fight against climate change, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16, marking the federal government’s largest commitment to ...

Flooding from Hurricane Florence closed roads across eastern North Carolina in 2018. The North Carolina state budget signed by Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday spends $800 million over the next two years ...

Simulated suitability regions for warm-water corals over past 250 million years. Higher probabilities (red) reflect greater potential for coral growth. Researchers from the University of Sydney and ...