The rapid rise in global rocket launches could slow the recovery of the vital ozone layer, says Sandro Vattioni. The problem is being underestimated—yet it could be mitigated by forward-looking, ...

Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great ...

Researchers from the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, Spain, digitally reconstructed the ribcages of four ...

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on Earth's surface, with one of the world's ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it was moving ahead with plans to ax its workforce by more than 3,700 ...

Canada's wildfires have burned more than 13.6 million acres (5.5 million hectares) this year, an area roughly the size of ...

Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published ...

In the last two decades, mass digitization has dramatically changed the landscape of scholarly research. The ability to ...

A new study published in the journal One Earth reveals that the way ecosystems collapse—abruptly or gradually—may depend on ...

How much microplastic truly ends up in the seafood on our plates? The answer varies significantly because there are no ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Aisin Corporation have demonstrated that universal scaling ...