An international research team has used earth observation radar data to map oil pipeline networks covering a 9000 km2 region in the Niger Delta and pinpoint where crude oil spills have caused the most ...

Literal groundbreaking research by Dr. Giorgio Arriga enhances our understanding of the long-term evolution of seismogenic ...

Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent as a result of climate change. River floods such as those along the Ahr and ...

Brazilian oil firm Petrobras expects to ready a veterinary center in the Amazon to care for animals in the event of an oil ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is defending oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River as a way to ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

A new study published in Nature emphasizes the urgent need for immediate action to help people adapt to changing conditions ...