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A new study shows that natural variants of oxygen within ancient animal teeth recorded details of seasonal rainfall, environmental conditions and animal behavior.

Opportunities related to climate, sustainable development, and the environment are available with distinguished faculty and researchers.

Getting rid of some air pollutants might aggravate global warming. Here’s how.

Long ago, melting glaciers dropped giant boulders onto surfaces in the New York City exurbs, and many seem to remain in their original, delicately balanced positions. Can they be used to judge the maximum sizes of past earthquakes?

Hundreds of people have lost their lives in Spain and Portugal due to a heat wave that is moving north and east.

A new study shows that weather systems that normally cool part of the continent are being diverted northward. This is combining with overall warming to produce long-lived heat waves.

There is new evidence that ancient high latitudes, to which early dinosaurs were largely relegated, regularly froze over, and that the creatures adapted—an apparent key to their later dominance.

Using historical records and model data, researchers have for the first time shown that the annual number of tropical cyclones dropped during the 20th century compared with the late 19th century.

How researchers are plumbing the seafloor during a quest to understand ‘silent’ earthquakes off the Mexican coast.

Daily life on a research vessel is smaller and slower-paced — in a good way, for the most part.

When you work 4am to 12pm on a research vessel, you get to watch some beautiful sunrises and eat breakfast for lunch every day.

Climate School experts explain the conditions contributing to heavy downpours that are displacing millions in Asia.

As the tropical Pacific stays stuck in a cool phase, dangerous patterns persist worldwide.

Aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth, Expedition MGL2204’s science team has started deploying ocean-bottom seismometers.

We are underway on our 48-day long expedition offshore of the west coast of Mexico near Acapulco, where the young Cocos oceanic plate dives beneath the North American plate.