Most plastic “advanced recycling” plants in the United States aren’t actually recycling plastic but instead converting it into a dirty...
Research published today shows how countries have contributed to global warming through their emissions of key greenhouse gases since 1850—marking...
Record-breaking heat waves have occurred recently from Delhi to the Pacific Northwest, and the number of these deadly events is...
China is a nighttime “hot-spot” for the production of nitrate radicals (PNO3) that could have a major impact on health-threatening...
A research team with lead author Helena Osterholz of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW) reports in the...
More companies must make and implement zero-deforestation supply chain commitments in order to significantly reduce deforestation and protect diverse ecosystems,...
Just like flash floods, flash droughts come on fast—drying out soil in a matter of days to weeks. These events...
Wildlife agencies in the U.S. are finding elevated levels of a class of toxic chemicals in game animals such as...
Using a method that works backward from a set of observed earthquakes to test seismic models that fit those observations,...
A deadly volcanic eruption near Tonga in January was the largest ever recorded with modern equipment, a New Zealand-led team...
Volcanic gasses are helping researchers track large-scale movements in Earth’s deep interior. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists, together with...
East Africa is much drier than other tropical land regions, including the Amazon and Congo rainforests. The geography of East...