From late June to mid-July of 2021, the Pacific Northwest was scorched under an unprecedented heat dome, shattering temperature records...
Protecting the world’s oceans against accelerating damage from human activities could be cheaper and take up less space than previously...
The 6 Feb. 2023 earthquakes of eastern Turkiye were the most devastating in the region for the past century. Researchers...
Waste is a natural by-product of life on Earth and of productive human economies. Living systems have evolved to reconstitute...
The cost of climate change may take six months off the average human lifespan, according to a study published January...
Three to five billion people—or up to two-thirds of the world’s population—are set to be affected by projected rainfall changes...
The way science is funded is hampering Earth system models, and may be skewing important climate predictions, according to a...
Bottom trawling is a previously unaccounted for source of atmospheric carbon emissions, scientists reveal in a study published today. As...
Climate change has caused Greenland’s ice sheet to lose 20 percent more ice than previously thought, according to research published...
The laws of thermodynamics dictate that a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, but new research has found that...
Across the American West, managers of fire-prone landscapes are increasingly using a practice that seems counterintuitive: setting small fires to...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded a highly precise technology designed to monitor emissions...
