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Mangroves are salt-tolerant shrubs that thrive in the harshest conditions. Still, new UniSA research shows that they are also avid coastal protectors, capable of surviving in heavily metal-contaminated environments.

To wrap up an international meeting in Bali, world leaders planted hope for the future in the form of new trees. Increased temperatures from global warming and its related calamities — like drought, intense storms, wind, flooding and wildfires — are taking a toll on Earth's trees. David Nowak is a retired researcher with the U.S. Forest Service, and he says millions of Americans are experiencing tree decline in their neighborhoods right now.

We need a realistic plan for energy descent, instead of foolish dreams of eternal consumer abundance by means other than fossil fuels.

Held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, the global conference facilitates meaningful engagement with key political and environmental stakeholders.

Researchers say flooding from a 100-year storm could impact up to 1 million people in and around Los Angeles, 30 times more than previously estimated.

Here’s a big scoop from Bloomberg: the “SEC is months away from finalizing expansive new climate disclosure requirements as the agency juggles investor demands for more transparency,...

For someone who says she doesn’t know what “wokeness” is, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth has certainly presided over her fair share of it.

(RNS) — Additionally, American Catholics were found to be five times more likely to express that climate change is a shared responsibility than their non-Catholic counterparts.

Researchers have discovered a new incentive to safeguard mangrove forests: for the past 5,000 years, they have been silently removing carbon from the Earth's atmosphere.

Experts say that Mangroves help mitigate climate change by storing carbon and keeping the carbon out of the atmosphere for the past 5,000 years.