A recently published study in Science challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth’s ice ages....
Since soon after our planet formed, Earth’s 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something dramatic happened about 500...
New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by...
Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West...
The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) in January 2022 ejected about 2.9 billion tons of volcanic material into the...
PFAS are in Miami’s rainwater. And it is the latest evidence the synthetic “forever chemicals”—that have raised health concerns for...
More and more regions around the globe combine economic growth with reducing carbon emissions, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for...
The presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in all the world’s oceans but one has been in steady decline since...
At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and...
An international study, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has unveiled new pathways to future copper deposits by...
Bio-based materials may pose a greater health risk to some of the planet’s most important species than the conventional plastics...
If Earth’s history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec....
