Fire is the primary form of terrestrial ecosystem disturbance on a global scale, and a major source of aerosols from the terrestrial biosphere to the atmosphere.

A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) found that New England’s historic lobster fishery may turn a higher profit by operating with less gear in the water and a shorter season. 

Have pollen. Must travel.

Arsenic levels at a former mining site in the Tamar Valley are posing a health risk to employees and the public using the site, a new study suggests.

Melting of ice in permafrost ground leads to processes of change in the landscape – thermokarst. This may cause faster thawing of the permafrost.

Study: Across North America, warming could shorten snow season.

Researchers find deep-sea microbes that feed on ethane and grow them in the laboratory; what is particularly exciting: The mechanism by which they break down ethane is reversible.

Beneath the ocean’s surface, a virus is hijacking the metabolism of the most abundant organism on Earth. 

Global warming is causing species to search for more temperate environments in which to migrate to, but it is marine species – according to the latest results of a Franco–American study mainly involving scientists from the CNRS, Ifremer, the Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier and the University of Picardy Jules Verne¹ – that are leading the way by moving up to six times faster towards the poles than their terrestrial congeners.

Two days of heavy rain led to catastrophic dam failures and major flooding in Midland County.