A team led by atmospheric scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has demonstrated the first-ever remote...
Little is known about the nature and evolution of Earth’s continental crust before a few billion years ago because cratons,...
New research has uncovered a feedback loop that may be accelerating the melting of the floating portions of the West...
New research has found a “missing piece of the puzzle” of West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, revealing that the collapse...
Oil spills are deadly disasters for ocean ecosystems. They can have lasting impacts on fish and marine mammals for decades...
A new statistical analysis of the interaction between El Niño and rising global temperatures due to climate change concludes that...
A research paper published in Science Advances reveals a direct correlation between plastic production and plastic pollution, such that every...
As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmered—and then burned....
Whether sedimentary rocks store fossil hydrocarbons or act as impermeable layers to prevent the rise of oil, natural gas or...
Extracting natural gas from shale formations can provide an abundant, lower-carbon footprint fossil fuel, but also creates concerns over increased...
Artificial intelligence (AI) can quickly and accurately predict the path and intensity of major storms, a new study demonstrates. The...
Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world’s population despite taking up about...