During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have grown accustomed to wearing facemasks, but many coverings are fragile and not easily disinfected. 

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic had people sharing an array of strategies for disinfection and disease prevention. 

A new study shows that if the population were fixed at current levels, the risk of population displacement due to river floods would rise by ~50% for each degree of global warming.

The unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 brought more than flood damage to southeast Texas.

Nearly 2,000 active landfills are spread across the U.S., with the majority of garbage discarded by homes and businesses finding its way to a landfill.

Despite aquaculture’s potential to feed a growing world population while relieving pressure on badly depleted oceans, the industry has been plagued by questions about its environmental impacts.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere fuels plant growth.

As the signs of today’s human-caused climate change become ever more alarming, research into the ways past societies responded to natural climate changes is growing increasingly urgent.

Extremely hot and dry conditions that currently put parts of the UK in the most severe danger of wildfires once a century could happen every other year in a few decades’ time due to climate change, new research has revealed.

The Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) is a climate change hot spot where summers warm much faster than in the rest of the world.