Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

The distribution of Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) at the northern edge of the species' range appears to be shaped by ...

Eating fish may well be good for you, but it carries a hidden risk of exposure to so-called "forever chemicals." A new study ...

With modern seismic tomography, Earth scientists have discovered that above Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB), about 2,900 ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

Ceramics are one of the most important sources of information for archaeologists. Yet how these objects are produced, ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

A new regional assessment shows that Southeast Asia is a major net source of greenhouse gases, with land-use change and ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

The emission of carbon dioxide (CO₂) is one of the primary factors contributing to air pollution and climate change on Earth.