In recent years, the news about Earth’s climate—from raging wildfires and stronger hurricanes, to devastating floods and searing heat waves—has...
Deaths from heat could triple in Europe by 2100 under current climate policies, mostly among people living in southern parts...
New research by the University of Liverpool has revealed how an underwater avalanche grew more than 100 times in size,...
The hottest warm period in the past million years is believed to have occurred about 400,000 years ago. During this...
Research from Western Sydney University has discovered PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate) chemical contamination in the livers of deceased platypuses across eastern...
Claims by large corporations of carbon reduction—or even carbon neutrality—may not hold up under close inspection. In a Nature Communications...
Air pollution is increasing the severity of summertime thunderstorms, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at James Madison...
International researchers from Finland, Germany, South Africa, and Ethiopia report that deforestation during the last two decades induced a higher...
The Earth’s nitrogen cycle is among the most heavily exceeded planetary boundaries. Agricultural production and fossil fuel burning release nitrogen...
The preservation of organic carbon in marine sediments has long been a key question remaining unclear in understanding the long-term...
Scientists at The University of Manchester have effectively simulated how bubbles grow in volcanic magma thanks to a novel pressure...
Energy companies use persistent and personalized pressure to get landowners to give permission for hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and even when...