As the climate warms and Arctic permafrost thaws, some of the toxic elements locked away in it are starting to...
The changes scientists expect in the climate could cause toxic metals naturally occurring in soils to become more mobile, destabilize...
An international team of geoscientists led by a volcanologist at Rutgers University-New Brunswick has discovered that, contrary to present scientific...
Flatfish and shrimp are caught in the North Sea by using trawls that are dragged across the seabed. This releases...
Boreal forests and Arctic tundra are underlain by millions of square kilometers of permafrost, and scientists are still unsure of...
Windblown dust from the shrinking Salton Sea harms the respiratory health of children living nearby, triggering asthma, coughing, wheezing and...
Windblown dust from the shrinking Salton Sea harms the respiratory health of children living nearby, triggering asthma, coughing, wheezing and...
The unprecedented temperatures in the summer of 2022 caused more than 68,000 deaths on the continent, according to a study...
A team of researchers has made significant strides in understanding the mechanisms behind corona discharges at thunderstorm cloud tops, a...
201.6 million years ago, one of the Earth’s five great mass extinctions took place, when three-quarters of all living species...
There’s a famous piece of advice from hockey, attributed to Wayne Gretzky, about how it’s better to skate to where...
When plumes of magma well up through Earth’s lithosphere, they create volcanoes, islands, seamounts, and other features on the surface....