Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating ...

The Amazon rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth” and credited with producing some 20 percent of the world’s ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) the influence of parasitic fungi on the ...

Billions of cigarette butts end up on sidewalks, beaches, and gutters each year. They are small, easy to ignore, and hard to ...

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

New research shows how changing rainfall speeds up soil carbon loss and how biochar helps soil cope with stress.

Every year, billions of cigarette butts are discarded worldwide, creating one of the most pervasive and persistent forms of ...

Traditional techniques of converting fossil fuels for heat and power generation and chemical production increase the carbon ...

Collapsing monster Simulation of a primordial monster star giving birth to a quasar – an extremely luminous active galactic ...

Rutgers University marine scientists are using New Jersey-developed tools to measure how iron shortages in Southern Ocean phytoplankton reduce photosynthetic efficiency and slow the conversion of ...

The Lomagundi-Jatuli event, which occurred more than two billion years ago, followed the Great Oxygenation Event and was marked by a significant change in the isotopic composition of carbon. Its cause ...

Geobiologist Knoll (A Brief History of Earth) offers a stimulating primer on how interactions between the planet’s physical environment and living beings have shaped the world throughout time. He ...