A flood remembered for centuries as the “St. Mary Magdalene’s Flood” was not a single catastrophe after all. A sweeping...

Scientists have found evidence that the Atlantic Ocean’s great heat-transporting system can suddenly strengthen—even while it is already severely weakened....

A hidden chemical reaction in soil, sediment and decaying plant material may be releasing far more methanol into the environment...

Phytoplankton may be microscopic, but their influence reaches from the surface of the ocean to the global climate system. These...

A new study published in Nature Communications describes a catalytic strategy that could change how difficult-to-remove pollutants are treated in...

Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, marshes are disappearing at the edges—one collapsing bank, drowned grass...

A new study proposes a data-driven way to identify which chemicals pose the greatest risk to children’s cardiovascular health, using...

For nearly two centuries, dinosaurs have moved from the margins of natural history into the center of one of science’s...

A familiar garden flower is emerging as an unlikely contender in the race to make textile dyeing cleaner. Researchers Das,...

The Yellow River Basin, one of China’s most important and environmentally pressured river systems, is revealing how profoundly water extremes...