The Amazon rainforest in South America is so critical to the health of Earth’s atmosphere that it’s known as the “lungs of the planet.”

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a novel semiconductor that overcomes a key limitation with light-harvesting materials. 

Study reveals battery performance targets for solar stratospheric aircraft.

Washington produces more blueberries than any other U.S. state, but farmers sometimes struggle to obtain honey bees to pollinate the plants and produce bountiful, delicious fruit.

American children are increasingly exposed to air pollution as wildfire smoke becomes more common, and some schools and childcare centers struggle to keep indoor breathing conditions clean, a new national study shows. 

UFZ study combines climate and hydrological models to analyse flood peaks.

The Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) – a vast layer of freshwater spanning much of the Southern Hemisphere’s four oceans – has rapidly reversed its long-term trends in salinity and density, according to new research led by the University of Melbourne and the Indian Institute of Science.

A new study led by University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa researchers reveals how extreme ocean warming disrupts whale metabolism, nutrition, and reproductive success and what the developing 2026-2027 El Niño could mean next. 

A study analyzing the effects of climate change on vascular plants in the United States finds that the fate of individual plant species tends to be a regional phenomenon.

Tools like Claude and ChatGPT can help researchers monitor ecosystems by finding and extracting data from observations made in nature by everyday people.