Stories by Alister Doyle

The impact of microplastics on marine life and humans who consume seafood is unclear

Volcanoes are emerging as natural laboratories to mimic geo-engineering

Wildfires contributed to global tree cover loss equivalent to the size of New Zealand in 2016

The coalition is the largest number of Catholic institutions to team up for a shift to green energy

Ocean temperatures in a natural warm period 125,000 years ago were indistinguishable from today—but sea level was six to nine meters higher

Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by nations for limiting global warming

Their numbers have declined by as much as 40 percent since the 1980s, due to illegal hunting and expansion of farmland

Scientists with the Royal Society and the U.S. National Academies of Sciences are "very confident" that the current hiatus is temporary and that the planet will warm further this century, causing more extreme heatwaves, droughts and rising seas