Plastics are pervasive, contaminating ecosystems from Mount Everest’s peak to the Mariana Trench’s depths. The research ...

2024 may be a record-shattering year of intense heat, not just for us humans, but also for our planet. In this very year, we ...

The study will look at how drought, heat waves and soil impact the cycle of water and carbon between plants and the ...

A variety of geoengineering technologies are being closely studied to rapidly remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But ...

Several new guidelines for the biodiversity market were launched at COP16 , where activists warned on risks to nature conservation efforts ...

Paleobotanist Dana Royer says there is evidence the planet will heal but it takes millions of years to recover. And each ...

Nature-based solutions use ecosystem services to tackle environmental challenges, offering a sustainable path to resilience ...

Research at Mars analog sites in Utah and Nunavut focuses on lichen diversity, helping to predict lichen survival on Mars and aiding our understanding of these organisms both on Earth and potentially ...

The site, known as the Quebrada Honda Basin (QHB) in the Andes mountains in southern Bolivia, encompasses a time period 13 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch. During the Miocene, the Earth's ...

In the highlands of Vietnam and Laos, saolas, or "Asian unicorns," are dwindling in number. And now, there's a race to save ...

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to store large amounts of carbon and its influence on the global water cycle.