What will happen when the climate starts to change and the rivers dry up? Some Australians are finding out right now.

As the planet warms, look for more floods where it’s already wet and deeper drought where water is scarce.

Seals, bears, and birds flourish on Norway's Arctic archipelago. But that rich life faces a creeping thaw.

Driven underground for 75 years, the faith of the Russian tsars now enjoys favored status.

An exotic fungus is delivering the fatal blow to amphibians already hit by habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.

A decade ago the farmers of the Murray-Darling Basin were on top of the world. But now their water is gone.

A cloud of plague locusts descends on a field outside Melbourne, Australia, in 1955.

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