Polyurethane is one of the world’s most widely used plastic materials, but it’s often overlooked in our daily lives. Yet...
After the natural warming that followed the last Ice Age, there were repeated periods when masses of icebergs broke off...
Naturalist John Muir called the Sierra Nevada “the Range of Light.” But a more ominous nickname, “the Range of Fire,”...
The ice sheets of Greenland are melting at an alarming rate. This causes large amounts of freshwater to flow into...
For at least the last 30 years, not a single country has met the basic needs of its residents without...
University of Liverpool researchers have produced new evidence that could help rapidly boost efforts to scale-up the adoption of clean...
Global warming will cause the world’s soil to release carbon, new research shows. Scientists used data on more than 9,000...
The frequency of extreme hot weather and record temperatures and rainfall has increased around the world as a result of...
The social cost of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that is the largest remaining threat to the ozone layer, is...
A team of scientists has identified an additional force that likely contributed to a mass extinction event 250 million years...
A new NASA-led study is the first to document changing atmospheric ammonia (NH3) concentrations in Africa over an extended period....
Abrupt changes in ice core samples and other records indicate dramatic changes in climate occurred at certain points in the...
