Few things say summer in America more than buttery corn on the cob, but as summer temperatures climb to unprecedented levels, the future of sweet corn may not be so sweet.

First, the bad news: Nothing is free. Moving the world energy system away from fossil fuels and into renewable sources will generate carbon emissions by itself, as construction of wind turbines, solar panels and other new infrastructure consumes energy—some of it necessarily coming from the fossil fuels we are trying to get rid of. 

A new experiment by an international research team demonstrates the mechanism for how the most stable gas-phase form of iodine known as iodic acid is formed.

Rock coasts, which make up over half the world’s coastlines, could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise.

In November 2022, Tropical Storm Nicole barreled into the Bahamas and then hit central-east Florida as a hurricane.

Researchers now have a unique resource for identifying new biomarkers of environmental exposures in early life and understanding their health effects.

Every year, the cross-shelf transport of carbon-rich particles from the Barents and Kara Seas could bind up to 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 in the Arctic deep sea for millennia.

Plastic pollution has been identified as an environmental problem similar in scope and complexity as global challenges like climate change.

When polar seas freeze and ice forms, it is not only due to cold air chilling the surface of the water. 

Scientists have confirmed that a “stabilizing feedback” on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in check.