Air pollution remains a silent killer in Massachusetts, responsible for an estimated 2,780 deaths a year and for measurable cognitive loss in Bay State children exposed to fine particulate pollutants in the air they breathe, according to a new study by researchers at Boston College’s Global Observatory on Planetary Health (formerly the BC Observatory on Pollution and Health).

The continental shelf is the submerged extension of a continent and as such it is at the crossroad of terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric influences.

When Mark Abbott and his team pulled a 300-foot-long core of mud from a lakebed high in the Peruvian Andes, he hoped it might provide a long-sought-after glimpse of the past 160,000 years of climate change.

A staggering 57% of threatened species need targeted recovery actions to ensure their survival, new research has shown.

In summer 2022, multiple heatwaves around the world felled temperature records and fueled wildfires.

Proteins often consist of hundreds or thousands of individual parts, the amino acids.

The State of California is banking on its forests to help reduce planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Antarctic sea ice shrank to a record low for the month

A series of 100-degree days have created worsening conditions for livestock and crop producers across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agents report.

Designed to analyze airborne dust to see how it might affect climate, the EMIT mission launches to the International Space Station on Thursday, July 14.