Research from Western Sydney University has discovered PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate) chemical contamination in the livers of deceased platypuses across eastern...
Claims by large corporations of carbon reduction—or even carbon neutrality—may not hold up under close inspection. In a Nature Communications...
Air pollution is increasing the severity of summertime thunderstorms, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at James Madison...
International researchers from Finland, Germany, South Africa, and Ethiopia report that deforestation during the last two decades induced a higher...
The Earth’s nitrogen cycle is among the most heavily exceeded planetary boundaries. Agricultural production and fossil fuel burning release nitrogen...
The preservation of organic carbon in marine sediments has long been a key question remaining unclear in understanding the long-term...
Scientists at The University of Manchester have effectively simulated how bubbles grow in volcanic magma thanks to a novel pressure...
Energy companies use persistent and personalized pressure to get landowners to give permission for hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and even when...
A megadrought that occurred 4,200 years ago had catastrophic impacts, potentially wiping out early empires and leading to large-scale changes...
For the decades since their discovery, seismic signals known as PKP precursors have challenged scientists. Regions of Earth’s lower mantle...
An international team of climate scientists have used a 627-year coral record from Fiji to reveal unprecedented insights into ocean...
A University of Queensland library—full of hailstones instead of books—is helping researchers to better understand and predict damaging storms. Dr....
