It has long been understood that clearcutting forests leads to more runoff, worsening flooding.

Glacial ice offers a detailed record of the atmosphere, preserved in discrete layers, providing researchers with a valuable tool for studying planetary history.

The modern world is built with concrete: Humans use more concrete annually than any other material besides water. Yet cement, the key component of concrete, is the source of as much as 10% of all carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.

The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific storytelling by building on field-based photographic data.

A new study finds that lightning kills some 320 million trees around the world each year, more than was previously thought.

A new study reveals an unfortunate effect of supermarkets' popular “2 for 1” offers: Not only do they make us buy more, these offers also lead to food waste at home.

The MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research symposium explores artificial intelligence as both a problem and a solution for the clean energy transition.

If you reach for a weather app to track monsoon storms, odds are good you're looking at University of Arizona Cooperative Extension science in action.

As Earth and Mars orbit the Sun, they pull on each other gravitationally, causing their paths to stretch and relax in a cycle that repeats roughly every 2.4 million years. These subtle orbital shifts change how close the planets approach the sun, which in turn can alter their long-term climate patterns.

The earthquake that rocked Alaska for close to five minutes on March 27, 1964, remains the most powerful earthquake recorded in U.S. history. It registered a magnitude of 9.2 on the Richter scale and generated a tsunami that killed people as far south as California. The earthquake also changed the nature of the land surrounding its epicenter near Prince William Sound.