While achieving the United Nations (UN) ambitious Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for wastewater treatment would cause substantial improvements in global...
Drought that stretched across three continents this summer—drying out large parts of Europe, the United States and China—was made 20...
Climate change is driving more volatile precipitation patterns around the world—very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large amounts...
A proposal to cover Arctic sea ice with layers of tiny hollow glass spheres about the thickness of one human...
A new study led by the University of Tasmania—with the participation of the University of Bonn—discovered the oldest marine DNA...
How old is your water? It may seem like a peculiar question at first, but there are real implications to...
Deep valleys buried under the seafloor of the North Sea record how the ancient ice sheets that used to cover...
Accurately modeling extreme precipitation events remains a major challenge for climate models. These models predict how the earth’s climate may...
A new study identifies major environmental concerns for the Lake Eyre Basin rivers, among the most pristine in the world....
Only satellites were watching when the world’s fourth-largest proglacial lake suddenly drained in 2020. Hokkaido University researchers have now uncovered...
Forecasters are predicting a “three-peat La Niña” this year. This will be the third winter in a row that the...
Some 250 million years ago—long before dinosaurs roamed the earth—global warming and acid oceans caused by the rapid volcanic emission...
