A McGill-led research team has developed the first real-time, on-site technology capable of detecting and deciphering nanoplastics from all other particles in water, a capacity akin to being able to find a needle in a haystack within milliseconds.

Norway’s coastline is littered with plastics from around the world. 

In the fight to protect biodiversity and limit climate change, the world will reap what it sows, say researchers from the University of Surrey.

A new study of coral reefs in Papua New Guinea shows ocean acidification simplifies coral structure, making crucial habitat less appealing to certain fish species.

Colossal undersea mountains, towering up to thousands of metres high, stir up deep sea currents: impacting how our ocean stores heat and carbon.

There is a common belief that prescribed burning, thinning trees, and clearing underbrush reduce risks of the severity of future fires. 

The tree Radka Wildova and Jonathan Rosenthal wanted to show me was only a few hundred feet from the trail at Tivoli Bays, a state wildlife management area in Rhinebeck, New York. But getting to it required bushwhacking through a thicket of non-native honeysuckle, multiflora rose, and poison ivy.

In the late 2000s, Scott Saleska noticed something strange going on in the Amazon rainforest. 

Abrupt shifts within complex systems such as the Earth’s climate system are extremely hard to predict.

As the world’s largest unfrozen freshwater resource, groundwater is crucial for life on Earth.