For many people, warm summer days feature spending time swimming in a lake. Lakes are important for more than just...
A 12-year analysis of the companies BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell has revealed that their discourse and pledges related to...
One longstanding enigma in geology is how one tectonic plate can break Earth’s rock-hard shell and begin diving under another...
How much the ground moves during an earthquake strongly depends on properties of rock and soil just beneath Earth’s surface....
A new analysis of the River Ganges in West Bengal, India, highlights how wastewater flowing into the river impacts its...
America’s coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the...
The seafloor near a mid-ocean ridge is often home to rising hydrothermal fluids from the deep crust that deposit minerals...
The torrent of man-made chemical and plastic waste worldwide has massively exceeded limits safe for humanity or the planet, and...
A new study looking at the presence of pharmaceuticals in the world’s rivers found concentrations at potentially toxic levels in...
As ice sheets began melting at the end of the last ice age, a series of cataclysmic floods called the...
New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geologic record that pitted...
Global warming is causing permafrost in the Arctic to thaw and sea ice to melt. As a result, coasts are...
