A common type of ocean algae plays a significant role in producing a massively abundant compound that helps cool the...
When soil microbes eat plant matter, the digested food follows one of two pathways. Either the microbe uses the food...
The geological and topographical features that make up the world we live in are shaped in large part by faults...
Climate change is causing a series of maladies by warming land and sea. A study published online in Limnology and...
A key to improving climate prediction is to improve understanding of the impact of aerosol on clouds, commonly known as...
About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen, or O2, first started to accumulate to meaningful levels in Earth’s atmosphere, setting...
A study by researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), published in Nature Sustainability, reaffirms the world’s growing...
Barrier islands dot the landscape along Virginia’s Eastern Shore, protecting the coastline from direct impacts of storms and sea-level rise....
From the air you breathe to the seafood you eat, marine algae have some involvement—they consume carbon dioxide and produce...
When it comes to the ocean’s response to global warming, we’re not in entirely uncharted waters. A UC Riverside study...
Video footage of Iceland’s 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption is providing researchers from the University of Cambridge with rare, up-close observations of...
The important role of the Southern Ocean in global biological processes and the carbon cycle has been confirmed anew by...