Scientists investigating the underside of the world’s largest ice sheet in East Antarctica have discovered a city-size lake whose sediments...
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego used an unprecedented technique to detect that levels of helium...
The most recent United Nations climate change report indicates that without significant action to mitigate global warming, the extent and...
The global trade in agricultural commodities provides food, fuel and fiber to consumers around the world. Commodity production, however, is...
It is well known that CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels underlie the havoc being wrought by climate change. Stemming...
Over the past few decades, tiny pieces of plastic have found their way, via the air, to remote places on...
Nearly 20 million people live in Southeast Asia’s Mekong Delta, which is also the source of 7–10% of internationally traded...
Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study published in Science Advances found that...
Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have drawn the clearest line yet connecting consumers...
The island prefecture of Hokkaidō, Japan’s second-largest island, has a rich cultural history of hunter-gatherers both on land and at...
Many scientists say that liquid water is a key to understanding the behavior of the frozen form found in glaciers....
Carbon dioxide is known to have a fertilizing effect on plant growth, and the gas is often added to greenhouse...
