Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, with thousands...
Nearly three quarters of the global population can expect strong and rapid changes in extreme temperatures and rainfall in the...
As Utah’s Great Salt Lake shrinks, exposing more of its playa, concerns grow about the dust the dry lakebed emits....
Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the...
Massive volcanic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions contributing to an extreme global ocean deoxygenation event over 120 million years ago has...
Severe drought in the American Southwest and Mexico and more severe wet years in the Northeast are the modern norm...
Tons of dead fish, mussels and snails were seen floating on the Oder River (Germany) in early August 2022. It...
Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as...
Near the Florida-Georgia border, the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers meet and become the Apalachicola River, which carries freshwater and nutrients...
Plants need phosphorus, an essential nutrient, to grow. This nutrient is present in fertilizers and applied to crops to increase...
A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of...
Rain and water in ponds and lakes slowly seeps into the soil, moving through minute cracks to refill underground aquifers....
