On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

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In a newly published study, scientists show that microplastic particles can have the same effects, producing ice crystals at ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

Houseflies can be a challenge to catch and kill, and while many methods exist, some take a while. This strategy is fast, ...

The beaver moon, of course, is named for the animal itself. Beavers are the largest living rodents in North America and are ...

New research suggests that about 3.6 billion years ago, Mars featured vast water flows and a lake rivaling the size of the ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...