Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that two intense periods of volcanism triggered global cooling and falling oxygen levels in the oceans, which caused one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history.

When forecasting how storms may change in the future, it helps to know something about their past. Judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s, hurricanes in the North Atlantic have become more frequent over the last 150 years.

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart of one of the Milky Way’s dwarf satellite galaxies, called Leo I. 

When animals catch COVID-19 from humans, new SARS-CoV-2 variants can arise. 

Using artificial intelligence techniques, an international team that included Rutgers-New Brunswick researchers has traced the evolution of coccolithophores, an ocean-dwelling phytoplankton group, over 2.8 million years.

Planting native grasses such as the bioenergy crop switchgrass can restore habitat for birds

Bacteria can help clean the groundwater. The choice of the right food for them is determined by the temperature.

Researchers have developed a model that can calculate individual countries' carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning using observations from space.

In 1950, 2 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced globally. In 2018, the world produced 360 million metric tonnes of plastics.

The months-long rainy season, or monsoon, that drenches northwestern Mexico each summer, reaching into Arizona and New Mexico and often as far north as Colorado and Northern California, is unlike any monsoon in the world, according to a new analysis by an earth scientist from the University of California, Berkeley.