It has been thousands of years since the Earth had pristine landscapes. A new article identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world around them with broad effects on natural ecosystems: global human expansion during the Late Pleistocene;...
Using 29 years of data from Landsat satellites, researchers at NASA have found extensive greening in the vegetation across Alaska and Canada. Rapidly increasing temperatures in the Arctic have led to longer growing seasons and changing soils for the...
Larval perch from the Baltic Sea that has filled its stomach with microplastic waste particles.Credit: Oona Lönnstedt
In a new study, published in Science, researchers from Uppsala University found that larval fish exposed to microplastic particles during development displayed changed...
New research has detected smaller sulfur dioxide concentrations and sources around the world, including human-made sources such as medium-size power plants and oil-related activities.Credit: Credits: EPA
Using a new satellite-based method, scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and...
Photo captures one of the California landslide sites studied by the UO's Georgie Bennett and Joshua Roering. The research team they led found that California's unprecedented drought is reflected in the drying of landslide formations and dramatic reductions in...
This image shows part of the coastline along the Bellinghausen Sea in West Antarctica, where satellite data has revealed four decades of ice loss to the ocean. Credit: Robert Bingham
Part of Antarctica has been losing ice to the ocean...
A lush community of vibrant red tube worms grows on a black smoker chimney in the ASHES hydrothermal field. The tube worms, which are hosted in white housings about the diameter of a person's small finger, are intergrown with...
Observed warming over the past 50 years (in degrees Celsius per decade) shows rapid warming in the Arctic, while the Southern Ocean around Antarctica has warmed little, if at all. Credit: K. Armour / UW
The waters surrounding Antarctica may...
This February, 2016 photo released Monday, May 30, 2016 by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies shows mature stag-horn coral bleached at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of northern Australia. The reef studies...
This view of Zion Canyon in Utah's Zion National Park shows the flat valley floor created when part of the peak named the Sentinel collapsed in a gigantic landslide, creating a dam and forming a lake, which eventually filled...
Students collect soil samples after flooding of the Rio Grande floodplain to determine triclosan levels in soils. Credit: Monica Mendez
Most U.S. homes are full of familiar household products with an ingredient that fights bacteria: triclosan. Triclosan seems to be everywhere....
