We are all exposed to ionising radiation over our lifetime.

About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost – permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand – bound together by ice.

The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study.

The endangered Bahama Warbler may be surviving on just one island following Hurricane Dorian’s devastation in 2019, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia.

Yale researchers have found that the ability of fish in temperate and polar ecosystems to move between shallow and deep water triggers species diversification.

Some reefs increase their resilience to elevated temperatures by being built by corals that shuffle algal partners following ocean heatwaves.

Engineers at MIT and Caltech have demonstrated an ingestible sensor whose location can be monitored as it moves through the digestive tract, an advance that could help doctors more easily diagnose gastrointestinal motility disorders such as constipation, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and gastroparesis.

Communities of microbes that work together release more carbon dioxide than competitive communities, contributing more to climate change.

Humans are artificially expanding cities’ coastlines by extending industrial ports and creating luxury residential waterfronts. 

Climate change is a global environmental concern. A major contribution to climate change comes from excessive burning of fossil fuels.