Water which has been contaminated with mercury and other toxic heavy metals is a major cause of environmental damage and health problems worldwide. 

Hidden away from the lush landscape of Hawai‘i’s Big Island featured in vacation photos and nestled at more than 2,400 metres’ elevation on the northern slope of Mauna Loa lies a dusty red landscape

Corals reefs face double threats from rising atmospheric carbon dioxide: severe heat stress and ocean acidification.

Physicists from the University of New Brunswick’s Radio Physics Lab have developed a new model that will help Canada monitor activity in the arctic and improve arctic communications.

A new study bolsters the idea that strange grooves crisscrossing the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient asteroid impact.

Antarctica is high and dry and mostly bitterly cold, and it’s easy to think of its ice and snow as locked away in a freezer, protected from melt except around its low-lying coasts and floating ice shelves.

A new scientific article shows that 25 European waterbird species can change their wintering areas depending on winter weather. 

Chemical clues in waters near Marcellus Shale gas wells in rural Pennsylvania can identify new drilling-related sources of methane contamination, according to scientists.

Rutgers scientists have developed catalysts that can convert carbon dioxide – the main cause of global warming – into plastics, fabrics, resins and other products.

Large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane are being released from an Icelandic glacier, scientists have discovered.