Tensions are escalating between Russia and Azerbaijan, an oil-rich Caspian Sea nation, driven by a series of contentious ...

Climate change has made extreme weather events such as bushfires and floods more frequent and more likely in recent years, ...

New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet. Two recent studies — one historical and the other ...

In Alaska, we must also be vigilant to another brewing geopolitical hotspot, the melting Arctic. Arctic competition is ...

When NATO leaders met last week, they repeated familiar warnings about Russia, China and Iran. But one threat did not make ...

“Looking at that 3 degrees centigrade warmer [than the year 2000] future corresponds to about a 13 percent loss in daily ...

The public is tuning out the seemingly slow warming of the world, but it doesn't have to be that way, argue Grace Liu and Rachit Dubey ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body ...

Experts aren’t sure what prompted the land mass’ rise from the sea, but it may be from cyclical sea changes or tectonic plate ...

The planet's food system faces growing risks from climate change, a new study says, and it's especially at peril in the U.S.