Rice University researcher helped find oxygen evidence of atmospheric production

Do you know where your water has been?

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions provided the first published report of algae using raw plants as a carbon energy source

Next step could be "nitrogen-fixing" plants that can do the same, reducing the need for fertilizer

The long journey from source to tap

The concentration of enterococci, bacteria that thrive in feces, has long been the federal standard for determining water quality

Scientists use GPS data to uncover unusual behavior between distant volcanoes

Changes in Hudson River may offer insight into how glaciers grew

Problem: Argonne National Laboratory is tasked with measuring all types of
climate information—often working in some of the world’s harshest environments

As allergy season intensifies, many people are cursing pollen—the powdery substance released by plants for reproduction

Predators, acorns, and fragmentation regulate numbers of infected ticks

Humans are the most populous large mammal on Earth today, and probably in all of geological history