Microscopic plankton that regulate Earth’s climate and sustain ocean ecosystems take centre stage in a new awareness campaign.

Courant and Center for Data Science researchers have created a neural network that quickly and accurately simulates ocean circulation.

Bright orange and black wings flutter by on the journey that defies all odds. 

Low cholesterol can reduce the risk of dementia, a new University of Bristol-led study with more than a million participants has shown.

After astronauts wake up from hibernation, will they still be able to drive the spacecraft?

An analysis of forest-based projects funded through the sale of carbon credits shows that 10% of them may have a net warming effect on the climate because of the way they alter the Earth’s albedo, or how much sunlight is reflected back into space.

On the edge of California’s Monterey Bay, ecologist Matthew Savoca and a team of volunteers sift through sand and seawater for microplastics, one of the planet’s most pervasive forms of pollution.

Solar farms could become important refuges for bumblebees in Britain, a new study reveals - though their benefits only go so far.

Two lasers in the fields at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm on the Troth Yeddha Campus are being used to help protect grain seeds such as barley from geese and cranes.

Global sea-level change has now been measured by satellites for more than 30 years, and a comparison with climate projections from the mid-1990s shows that they were remarkably accurate, according to two Tulane University researchers whose findings appear in Earth's Future, an open-access journal published by the American Geophysical Union.