By working directly with consumers and citizen scientists, the project is designed to increase public awareness of lead in water and plumbing on a national scale

Researchers used a variety of climate-change scenarios to project the impact of sea-level rise and wave-driven flooding on atoll infrastructure and freshwater availability

The team reported that sunlight changes oil into different compounds that dispersants cannot easily break up

New research has found that the nesting environment of turtles in agricultural habitats, which can ultimately lower nesting temperatures, can produce more males

The global demographic and economic trends that have resulted in unprecedented destruction of the environment are now creating the necessary conditions for a possible renaissance of nature, paper says

Researchers had expected the level of damage would rise depending on the amount of logging and were surprised to discover the impact of removing relatively few trees

Harvey, one of the costliest storms in US history, hit southeast Texas on 25 August 2017 causing unprecedented flooding and killing dozens

Study finds a surprising link between food waste and diet quality

A new study published online Apr. 18 in Nature shows that corals on the northern Great Barrier Reef experienced a catastrophic die-off following the extended marine heatwave of 2016

Among the deep-sea creatures new to science is a crab that has fuzzy spines and blood-red eyes

This event, called the “Permian-Triassic mass extinction,” represents the greatest catastrophe in the history of life on Earth

The researchers found the chemical not only in an electronic waste facility, where it would be expected, but in the bedrooms and living rooms of homes in Bloomington, Indiana