Synergy isn’t always a good thing — take climate change and invasive plants.

A new online tool reveals how more than 200 planned dams worldwide will alter river temperatures, potentially rendering waters too hot or too cold for native fish.

A long-term study in the Southern Ocean reveals a clear correlation between warming waters, decreased sea ice, and reduced abundance of Antarctic silverfish.

Little food reaches the depths below the permanently ice-covered Arctic Ocean, because light limits the productivity of algae.

In a landmark study of airborne microorganisms from ground level up to 3,500 metres, scientists from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that bacteria and fungi populate the planet's lower atmosphere in very specific ways and if changed, may negatively impact human health and food supply.

Because infected people begin excreting virus days before developing symptoms, wastewater monitoring can provide an early warning of infection in the community.

When we think of climate change, we often imagine how a warmer world will impact species, but a new study highlights the importance of changes in precipitation.

Until now, research assumed that the vast forest area of the Congo Basin, like other tropical forests, releases large amounts of nitrous oxide and binds methane. 

New research has revealed that only 15 per cent of coastal areas around the world remain intact, exposing the need for urgent coastal rehabilitation and conservation on a global scale.

Could satellites be able to help track and map the marine plastic waste befouling our oceans?