Over the next decades to centuries, will melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS)—Earth’s largest ice mass—cause global sea level...
The huge and growing toll bottled water is taking on human and planetary health warrants an urgent rethink of its...
Sunlight plays a crucial role in public health, affecting vitamin D synthesis and psychological well-being. Inadequate exposure to sunlight is...
Sophisticated analysis of tiny bubbles of ancient gas trapped in volcanic rocks, combined with new geophysical modeling, has cast new...
Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life Science...
During her summer travels to her native Belgium, University of Arizona professor Valerie Trouet noticed something that turned casual curiosity...
The last ice age peaked around 20,000 years ago and was marked by extensive glaciation and dramatic climate shifts that...
University of Maryland scientists uncovered evidence of an ancient seafloor that sank deep into Earth during the age of dinosaurs,...
More than 600 cellphone towers were inoperable. Close to 900,000 Florida Power and Light customers were left without electricity. Flooding...
A recent study challenges previous assumptions about the connection between CO₂ in the atmosphere and temperatures in the tropics. Between...
Hurricanes and other extreme weather events are expensive in lives and money. From 1980 to 2023, weather and climate disasters...
The number of days per year that are simultaneously extremely hot, dry, and have a high fire risk have as...