Climate

Tires are among the most quietly destructive products of modern transportation. Every time a vehicle rolls down a highway, mechanical...

On a windswept, Navy-run island roughly 110 kilometers off the coast of Southern California, a tiny fox found nowhere else...

In the most comprehensive assessment of its kind ever conducted, an international research team has revealed that women who manage...

In a modest laboratory on the Potchefstroom campus of North-West University, researchers have burned their way through a problem that...

Mosquito larvae have long served as sentinels for freshwater contamination, but a new study suggests that the direction in which...

Oysters, long regarded as sentinel species for coastal pollution monitoring, are now revealing an unsettling truth about the "eco-friendly" plastics...

Along Ghana's eastern coastline, where the Gulf of Guinea presses relentlessly against low-lying sandy shores, the sea is steadily dismantling...

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

The world's largest tropical wetland is undergoing a human crisis that scientists have barely been able to study. The Sudd,...

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