Millions of tons of plastic waste enter the oceans each year. The sun’s ultraviolet light and ocean turbulence break down...
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have discovered a change in what scientists already knew about global warming...
A study led by scientists at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has shown that the Rio Grande...
Extreme heat and wildfire smoke are independently harmful to the human body, but together their impact on cardiovascular and respiratory...
Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones—where tectonic plates collide—could help scientists make better predictions of how these zones...
Do climate change deniers bend the facts to avoid having to modify their environmentally harmful behavior? Researchers from the University...
Governments and businesses are relying on dangerous amounts of future removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, instead of...
New research from Dartmouth College provides the first evidence that the Arctic’s frozen soil is the dominant force shaping Earth’s...
While much of the world is grappling with rising sea levels due to the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet, the...
Mangroves and saltmarshes sequester large amounts of carbon, mitigating the greenhouse effect. New research from the University of Gothenburg shows...
New Curtin University-led research has estimated that 1,454 avoidable deaths (one person every five days) occurred in Australian capital cities...
Geoscientists have uncovered a missing link in the enigmatic story of how the continents developed—a revised origin story that doesn’t...
