The collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991 yielded social, political and economic effects worldwide. Among them was a...
Declining atmospheric sulfur dioxide levels might be related to the global rise in Legionnaires’ disease—a severe form of pneumonia caused...
Scientists know relatively little about particles released into the air when a vehicle driver brakes, though evidence suggests that those...
Our world may seem fragile, but Earth has been around for a very long time. If we ventured far back...
Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts...
A new study led by UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography postdoctoral scholar Jennifer Bowen finds that canals used...
Arctic sea ice is shrinking as the world continues to warm, and a new study led by researchers at Penn...
Emergency planners in Shanghai and New York City face increasing pressure to protect elderly citizens from the devastating impact of...
The meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant, caused by the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, represents the...
A team of scientists from the University of Exeter, Met Office, and Imperial College have found a new way to...
Climate change is driving both the loss of biodiversity and the need for clean, renewable energy. It is also shifting...
For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not...
