Today, people around the globe will honour World Environment Day—an annual event dedicated to raising awareness and protecting the environment.

Pockets of landscape less prone than adjacent areas to disturbances like fire and drought may hold the key for scientists, conservationists and land managers seeking to preserve vulnerable species in a changing climate.

Producing fewer sperm cells can be advantageous in self-fertilizing plants. 

Vaccines are notoriously difficult to transport to remote or dangerous places, as they spoil when not refrigerated. 

The East African Rift System (EARS) is a newly forming plate tectonic boundary at which the African continent is being separated into several plates. This is not a clean break. The system includes several rift arms and one or more smaller so-called microplates. According to GPS data, the Victoria microplate is moving in a counterclockwise rotation relative to Africa in contrast to the other plates involved.

Each spring, the Canadian Arctic is the site of a fierce battle between water and ice.

Today marks World Oceans Day, a day that aims to raise awareness in protecting and restoring our oceans and its resources.

Skoltech scientists and their industry colleagues have found a way to use machine learning to accurately predict rock thermal conductivity, a crucial parameter for enhanced oil recovery. 

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the sun that expands into interplanetary space. 

As communities across the U.S. have struggled to cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have focused on the lack of widespread testing as a major barrier to safely reopening the country.