Researchers at UC Santa Cruz are contributing new insights into the challenges plants face in adapting to climate change. Prior...
Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature...
During another time in which Earth warmed rapidly in conjunction with a spike in atmospheric carbon similar to our modern...
After the successful ban of the flame-retardant substances called PBDEs in the early 2000s, it got replaced by another problematic...
A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist has discovered a method for detecting and better defining meteorite impact sites that have...
Earthquakes of similar magnitude can cause tsunamis of greatly varying sizes. This commonly observed, but not well-understood phenomenon has hindered...
By 2080, around 70% of the world’s oceans could be suffocating from a lack of oxygen as a result of...
Polyethylene, a plastic that is both cheap and easy to process, accounts for nearly one-third of the world’s plastic waste....
Climate change and warmer conditions have altered snow-driven extremes and previous studies predict less and slower snowmelt in the northern...
Brianna Rick, a doctoral student in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University, has been conducting research in Alaska...
The social cost of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that is the largest remaining threat to the ozone layer, is...
A new study by scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has used computer modeling to rank the factors responsible for...
