As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cracks down on insidious “forever chemical” pollution in the environment, military and commercial aviation...
Humans have the capacity to imagine civilizations and creatures that have never existed, and our language reflects that ability. It...
Summer can be an extra challenging time for Texas’s 189 major water supply reservoirs. With temperatures consistently reaching 100 degrees...
Traditionally, estimates of how climate change will affect global economies have focused on the effects of annual temperature changes. However,...
As anyone with seasonal allergies knows, unseen airborne particles can really wreck a person’s day. Like the tree pollen that...
As carbon dioxide accumulates in the atmosphere, the Earth will get hotter. But exactly how much warming will result from...
When designing repositories for high-level radioactive waste in deep geological layers, various factors must be carefully considered to ensure their...
Arctic and boreal latitudes are warming faster than any other region on Earth. In three new studies, Earth system scientists...
The length of time that Yellowstone Lake is covered by ice each year has not changed in the past century,...
By fueling the growth of plants that become kindling, carbon dioxide is driving an increase in the severity and frequency...
Models of the global carbon cycle typically include plants, microbes, soil, and the atmosphere. But they may be leaving out...
Nineteen out of 34 countries surveyed failed to fully meet their 2020 climate commitments set 15 years ago in Copenhagen,...
