Most plastic “advanced recycling” plants in the United States aren’t actually recycling plastic but instead converting it into a dirty...
Just like flash floods, flash droughts come on fast—drying out soil in a matter of days to weeks. These events...
Volcanic gasses are helping researchers track large-scale movements in Earth’s deep interior. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists, together with...
It’s been becoming more and more clear that global warming means more than just warmer temperatures. Extreme weather events are...
Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a...
Changing the way fruit is gathered from a “tree of life” could have hugely positive environmental and financial impacts in...
A team of scientists has identified an additional force that likely contributed to a mass extinction event 250 million years...
Contrary to popular belief, China’s massive emigration from rural areas to cities has been shown to have a positive effect...
On a sunny morning in September 1985, a massive earthquake killed more than 9,000 people in Mexico City, even though...
A single flash of lightning in the United States nearly two years ago cut across the sky for nearly 770...
A three-dimensional approach to marine conservation could help expand protected ocean areas by up to 30% this decade, according to...
One of the world’s largest freshwater wetlands—the Pantanal—spreads across a bowl-shaped plain where Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay meet. During the...
