A new study finds more than half of adults surveyed worldwide expect to be seriously harmed by their water within the next two years. 

Ancient viruses preserved in glacial ice hold valuable information about changes in Earth’s climate, a new study suggests.

A new study reveals how ocean biology and marine pollution can end up on Antarctica’s shoreline.

Scientists have found microplastics in brain tissue.

Excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activities—such as fossil fuel burning, land-use changes, and deforestation—is known as anthropogenic carbon dioxide.

In what they labeled a “surprising” finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein’s essential role in maintaining the germ’s shape.

An international research team led by the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna has discovered that comammox bacteria, first identified by them in 2015, can grow using guanidine, a nitrogen-rich organic compound, as their sole energy and nitrogen source.

Rutgers researchers examined particulate matter from a June 2023 fire that triggered advisories for more than 100 million Americans in the Northeast.

With NASA data showing that July 22, 2024, was the hottest day on record and indications that July may have been the hottest month, an Annenberg Public Policy Center survey conducted in mid-July found that most people know three of the symptoms of a heat-related illness but do not know the location of their nearest cooling center.

Heat related mortality would have been 80% higher in absence of the adaptation observed during the present century.