The midsummer drought of Mesoamerica—one of the most striking and economically consequential precipitation phenomena in the tropics—has long been portrayed...

Groundwater is the world's largest store of accessible freshwater, and a sweeping new review reveals that the scientific community has...

A new study published in the journal Environmental Management shows how a statistical tool borrowed from factory quality control floors...

Illegal mining in a remote corner of the Brazilian Amazon is leaving behind more than deforested riverbanks and mercury-tainted water....

Every year, industries around the world drain millions of liters of dark, degraded hydraulic fluid from presses, excavators, injection-molding machines...

Two stranded Antarctic prions on the coast of Sergipe, Brazil, yielded six parasite taxa, including the first Brazilian record of...

A new study of Chinese households finds that energy efficiency improvements can trigger strong rebound effects that erode energy savings...

The building and construction sector is one of the most environmentally consequential industries on the planet. According to the United...

A new study of eleven Ugandan composting sites found microplastics in every compost sample, averaging 2,100 particles per kilogram, with...

The papaya, that sweet orange-fleshed fruit sitting unassumingly in supermarket produce aisles across the tropics, is enjoying a moment of...