Ground-based measuring devices and aircraft radar operated in the far northeast of Greenland show how much ice the 79° N Glacier is losing.

A new analysis of zooplankton in western Lake Erie shows that their biomass and seasonal behavioral patterns have been drastically altered by human-driven changes in water temperature and food webs.

As winter turned to spring, a mid-March storm dropped several feet of snow on Colorado.

Microplastics are tiny, nearly indestructible fragments shed from everyday plastic products.

New research suggests that there might be other ways to generate solar energy than just trying to make individual solar cells super-efficient.

Researchers at the University of Toronto and Sinai Health have created a new platform to identify proteins that can be co-opted to control the stability of other proteins — a new but largely unrealized approach to the treatment of disease.

Reduced snow cover and shifting vegetation patterns in the Alps, both driven by climate change, are having major combined impacts on biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems in the high mountains, according to new research published today.

A global wave of infections caused by fungi growing drug-resistant has the medical community issuing precautions on how to protect yourself.

Namibia's legendary fairy circles are mysterious, circular, bald patches in the dry grasslands on the edge of the Namib Desert.

When plastic ends up in the ocean, it gradually weathers and disintegrates into small particles.