Facing a climate crisis, we may someday spray sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to form a cloud that cools the Earth, but suddenly stopping the spraying would have a severe global impact on animals and plants, according to...
Weather extremes caused by climate change could raise the risk of food shortages in many countries, new research suggests.
The study, led by the University of Exeter, examined how climate change could affect the vulnerability of different countries to food...
A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast.
Future global warming may eventually be twice as warm as projected by climate models and sea levels may rise six metres...
This is a close-up of a tsetse fly.
Credit: University of Bristol
Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts of the African tsetse fly as part of ongoing work on the animal...
More than half the cosmetics sold in the United States and Canada likely contain high levels of a toxic industrial compound linked to serious health conditions, including cancer and reduced birth weight, according to a new study.
Researchers at the...
Microwaves usage across the EU alone emits as much carbon dioxide as nearly seven million cars according to a new study by The University of Manchester.
Researchers at the University have carried out the first ever comprehensive study of the...
Marine ecologist Emmett Duffy of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center works on a boat in Panama's Bocas Del Toro Research Station. Duffy directs the Smithsonian's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), an international network of sites that track biodiversity in...
A new study of chemical reactions that occur when organic matter decomposes in freshwater lakes has revealed that the debris from trees suppresses production of methane—while debris from plants found in reed beds actually promotes this harmful greenhouse gas.
As...
Asphalt is a near-ubiquitous substance—it's found in roads, on roofs and in driveways—but its chemical emissions rarely figure into urban air quality management plans.
A new study finds that asphalt is a significant source of air pollutants in urban areas, especially on...
Heliofungia behaviour as it's bleaching, captured by Brett Lewis and Dr Luke Nothdurft. Credit: Queensland University of Technology
Coral researchers have for the first time captured the specific behaviour of a coral as it's bleaching.
The team from QUT in Australia...
As iron is deposited from air pollution off the coast of East Asia, ocean currents carry the nutrient far and wide.
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology
As climatologists closely monitor the impact of human activity on the world's oceans, researchers at...
