Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused on understanding global climate impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities to ...

Researchers found major fire models underestimate carbon released from deep peat soils in boreal forests. Field data from 324 ...

Children born in recent decades are facing—and will continue to face—far more climate disasters over their lifetimes than previous generations, according to a new global study published in Nature. An ...

Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels, and transforming the oceans. Even if countries meet their pledges to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving ...

Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. As greenhouse gas levels, primarily carbon dioxide due to the burning of ...