The lucrative truffle industry is set to disappear within a generation due to climate change, according to new research by a University of Stirling academic.

The availability of a key prey for seabirds has changed dramatically over the past three decades, particularly in winter, with possible consequences for their population numbers, a new study has found.

It’s safe to slap on the sunscreen this summer – in repeated doses – despite what you have read about the potential toxicity of sunscreens.

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.