For centuries, coastlines have attracted dense human settlement and economic activity.

Flinders University researchers are turning mining waste into a powerful tool for sustainable construction – proving that superior construction materials can be developed from unlikely sources.

They’re tiny particles – with potentially huge human consequences. 

Today, the German research vessel SONNE departs from Balboa (Panama) on a five-week expedition along the Central American Volcanic Arc.

A modelling study shows how heat stored in the ocean could be released after centuries of global cooling.

When militia attacks disrupted shipping lanes in the Red Sea, few imagined the ripple effects would reach the clouds over the South Atlantic. 

New research reveals for the first time why Europe could gain more than an extra month of summer days by 2100 using climate data from the last millennia.

Around the world, mountains are warming faster than surrounding lowlands, scientists warn. 

Fifteen years after the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill poured an estimated 134 million gallons of oil into the marine environment, vital long-term monitoring work involving University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers continues to chart the slow path to recovery for the region’s deep-sea coral communities, providing critical information to guide their restoration. 

Rebecca Stup ’23, MS ’26, is a master’s student in the lab of Antonio DiTommaso, a weed ecologist and associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES).