Most people today would lean towards environmentally-friendly life choices, but not at the expense of being clean. When it comes...
During a 2017 research field trip to the Ichinokawa Mine (Ehime prefecture), which is famous for beautiful, sword-shaped stibnite crystals,...
When old satellites fall into Earth’s atmosphere and burn up, they leave behind tiny particles of aluminum oxide, which eat...
University of Southern California scientists have proven that the Earth’s inner core is backtracking—slowing down—in relation to the planet’s surface,...
Earthquakes may betray their impending presence much earlier than previously thought through a variety of anomalies present in the ground,...
Deposits of deep-pink sand washing up on South Australian shores shed new light on when the Australian tectonic plate began...
As the world transitions to greener sources of energy, demand for the metals used in these new technologies is increasing....
Coastal Alaska communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta northward will see more of their buildings exposed to flooding by 2100 if...
Emissions of nitrous oxide—a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane—continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year...
Climate models are a key technology in predicting the impacts of climate change. By running simulations of the Earth’s climate,...
Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels...
A new study has revealed significant progress in the drive to reduce levels in the atmosphere of chemicals that destroy...
