A team led by researchers in British Columbia has solved the mystery of a gruesome disease that has killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast of North America, more than a decade after the die off. Melanie Prentice, the lead author of a new study, recalls a moment of "not really believing it" when researchers found a strain of bacteria that was abundant in diseased sea stars and absent in healthy ones.

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

A warming tundra has seen unexpected shifts, raising the alarm about fragile ecosystems and those who rely on them

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, and helps regulate the global climate. But a new study…

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

Breaking: The WHO issued its starkest warning yet on the consequences of the abrupt cessation of U.S. global health funding, saying it is threatening to reverse years of progress worldwide.

When human activities disrupt and unbalance ecosystems, such as by way of climate change and biodiversity loss, things go wrong.

Scientists added a new shade to a graphical representation of global temperature change to keep up with our warming world.