Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier, the last in the Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.

Molecular fossils from marine phytoplankton reveal a substantial decline in CO2 values over the past 15 million years and may support higher climate sensitivity than previously reported.

Scientists are working to understand how the barrier is affecting the area’s biodiversity.

Decades worth of seismic data confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core is moving slower than the planet's surface.

Scientists call for regulation to stop regional use of marine cloud brightening having negative impact elsewhere

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The new level won’t trigger automatic cleanups, but it sets a lower threshold for taking precautions to reduce lead exposure.

Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts — and they overlap more than you'd think.

Researchers are observing addiction, anxiety, and sex reversal as our substances contaminate ecosystems.

In ecosystems like Alaska’s boreal forest, preventing biodiversity loss is no longer possible. Scientists are beginning to grapple with what comes next.

Earth's largest remaining tract of tropical rainforest is kept alive by a complex water cycle that we're only just beginning to understand.

Off the coasts of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California lies a 600 mile-long strip where the Pacific Ocean floor is slowly diving eastward under North America. This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move...

The EarthCARE satellite is poised to provide an unprecedented look at how clouds and aerosols shape, and respond to, climate change.

Giving hurricanes human names makes them memorable, but the practice has resulted in some strange side effects.

A leading driver of this seaweed invasion is pollution, carried down rivers and into the Atlantic Ocean from the continents.

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga.

Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.

The Brunt Ice Shelf lost a large wedge of floating ice, the third sizeable iceberg to calve from the shelf in recent years. The TIRS instrument on Landsat 9 captured false-color images of the calving.

The first sign of trouble bubbled up from gopher holes a stone’s throw from Stan Ledgerwood’s front door. The salt water left an oily sheen on the soil and a swath of dead grass in the yard. It was June 2017, and Ledgerwood and his wife, Tina, had recently built a home on the family […]

Lawns and our relationship with them are, well, kind of complicated.

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There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.

Experimental model explores connection between air quality and weather

April continued the year's warm streak, with 2024 ranking as the fifth-warmest year on record for the nation so far.

April was the Earth's 11th consecutive month of record-breaking heat, with warmer weather already sweeping across Asia and a hotter-than-usual summer expected in Europe.

The Colorado River basin was flagged as a region depleted due to heavy water use, as was the Amazon in South America.

In 2016, Tony Spaniola received a notice informing him that his family shouldn’t drink water drawn from the well at his lake home in Oscoda, Michigan. Over the course of several decades, the Air Force had showered thousands of gallons of firefighting foam onto the ground at Wurtsmith Air Force Base,...

The amount of copper, zinc and sulfate has doubled in the alpine streams flowing from the mountains over the past three decades.

Years ago, scientists made a devastating prediction about the ocean. Now it’s unfolding.