Surge in microplastics could serve as marker for “the Great Acceleration”.

Scientists study how a massive input of external nutrients alters marine ecosystems.

The important nutrient phosphate may be less abundant in the global ocean than previously thought, according to a new paper in Science Advances. 

An overwhelming scientific consensus affirms that for thousands of species across the globe, climate change is an immediate and existential threat.

Bad wells tend to get excluded from studies on groundwater levels, a problem that could skew results everywhere monitoring is used to decide government policies and spending.

University of Arizona ecology and evolutionary biology processor Brian Enquist and former doctoral student Vanessa Buzzard trekked across the Americas: from moist, tropical jungles in Panama to the frigid boreal forests in Colorado to the wet temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest. 

The amount of antibiotics entering the River Thames would need to be cut by as much as 80 per cent to avoid the development and spread of antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’, a new study has shown.

Chemistry of plants makes a big difference in how quickly they burn.

Newly available archival film has revealed the eastern ice shelf of Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting faster than previous estimates, suggesting the shelf may collapse sooner than expected.

Most years, they rise from the water and blanket unsuspecting communities.