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Earthquake activity near a California volcano has been linked to snowmelt. Researchers at U.S. Geological Survey studied data from 1984 to 2017.

If climate change continues at its current pace, the famous Snæfellsjökull glacier in West Iceland will be all-but completely gone by 2050.

Researchers have determined that, when ground ice is thicker, reindeer make for the coast. They don't eat kelp when they don't have to.

UChicago grad student analyzes ecosystem changes due to climate change on clams, snails, worms, crabs, urchins, starfish and more

Warming trend means Arkansas River won't meet demand.

Since 1972, the giant island’s ice sheet has lost 11 quadrillion pounds of water.

As their population grows worldwide, the birds are destroying the habitat of other waterfowl.

A team of researchers at York University has warned that the American bumblebee is facing imminent extinction from Canada, and this could lead to “cascading impacts” throughout the country.

The Pacific Ocean off the California coast is mixed up, and so are many of the animals that live there.

“Climate change is happening faster than it’s ever happened before in our record,” Utquiagvik-based NOAA scientist Bryan Thomas said. “We’re right in the middle of it.”

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinating everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on the decline, according to a new study. Researchers...

Researchers are using data from the “Submit-a-Tick” program to model where non-native ticks might thrive in future decades as climate conditions change.

The number of people calling the Swedish Poisons Information Centre about snake bites rose sharply in 2018 and is expected to continue its upward slide ...

If you're eagerly waiting for springtime you can count on the wait being one week shorter compared to the last 100 years.

This spring has seen record-breaking warm temperatures across Alaska. In the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the Kuskokwim River is melting early — with devastating consequences.

The people in Yukon's northernmost community are watching the effects of climate change unfold firsthand. Now the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation is going to do something about it.

Warming ocean waters are an invitation to all sorts of pathogens with the potential to remake ocean life.

"We've all known with climate change, the bears are coming ashore earlier, they're spending more time onshore, and they're becoming habituated," said Rockwell, a research associate with the American Museum of Natural History.

The earth's glaciers are melting much faster than scientists thought. A new study shows they are losing 369 billion tons of snow and ice each year, more than half of that in North America.

Dumps are often chock-full of plastic and, as a new survey shows, polar bears are ingesting a lot of it. In an analysis of the stomach contents of 51 polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea, researchers led by Raphaela Stimmelmayr, a wildlife veterinarian with Alaska’s North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, found that 25 percent of the bears had plastic in their stomachs.