Study suggests that coal-burning activities in the Asia-Pacific region have influenced environmental conditions in the United States Pacific Northwest

A comparison of protected and impacted reefs in Cuba and Florida Keys

For 50 years, what's called "the phosphate problem" has plagued studies on the origin of life

Study by experts in Sheffield and Kyoto, Japan, found meat consumption explained less than 10 percent of difference in carbon footprints

Thiol redox switches regulate how plant seeds use their stored energy reserves

Scientists suspect that meltwater from Greenland and excessive rainfall could interfere with the North Atlantic Current

New 96-million-year old turtles from Texas connect North America with Asia and the Southern Hemisphere

A recent study is the first to look at where chemicals in plastic end up after being broken down in a natural system—a yellow mealworm's gut, in this case

Although coastal wetlands cover only about two percent of the ocean surface, they are estimated to sequester more than 50 percent of the carbon captured by the ocean per year

The image may sound like an alien winter wonderland, but the scientists who led the research said it is akin to how rocks form inside volcanoes

For freshwater systems, there is often a lack of consideration as to the optimal sample type for maximizing detection of macroinvertebrates

Method concentrates radionuclides in a small portion of a nuclear plant’s wastewater, allowing the rest to be recycled