Crowds flocking to rivers and streams over Labor Day weekend are doing more than cooling off and having fun. They’re...
When waves break on the open ocean, they throw particles called sea spray aerosols into the atmosphere. These particles can...
Testing for levels of microplastic contamination in marine plankton aims to help develop new ways to assess and manage the...
Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons...
Imperial College London research has found limits to how quickly we can scale up technology to store gigatonnes of carbon...
Coastal cities play a key role in the global economy and have important functions for society at large. At the...
For the last seven decades, Earth has been operating in unprecedented ways, leading many researchers to argue that we have...
The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest has a history of producing powerful and destructive earthquakes that have sunk...
Global warming, driven by human activities, has led to rising average temperatures worldwide. However, Greenland has been warming at an...
Ancient viruses preserved in glacial ice hold valuable information about changes in Earth’s climate, a new study suggests. For decades,...
A new study finds more than half of adults surveyed worldwide expect to be seriously harmed by their water within...
At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to 51 million years ago, Earth...