Study rates 50 largest U.S. cities – finds marginal evacuation planning improvements. Evacuation planners rarely considered the needs of carless and vulnerable populations before Hurricane…
Rocky coastlines could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise. This is especially concerning because rock coasts make up over…
Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new research finds. Scientists have confirmed that a “stabilizing feedback” on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in…
According to new research, ray-finned fish, now the most diverse group of backboned animals, were not as hard hit by a mass extinction event as…
Dog and cat owners could significantly reduce the environmental impact of their pets’ diets by feeding them dry food (consisting of kibble or biscuits) rather…
University of Miami researchers discover that a swath of cooling water in the subpolar region is unrelated to an ocean circulation slowdown. The pattern of…
Geologists find parallels between ancient, global-scale extinction events and modern threats to Earth’s oceans. A series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during…
Dark, flat-topped mesas stand out amid the surrounding lighter-toned landscape in northwest Sudan. This detailed photograph, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS),…
Nord Stream 1 and 2, two subsea pipelines for transferring natural gas from Russia to Germany, were both deliberately ruptured on September 26, 2022. Massive…
A new study combined GPS, satellite data, and numerical modeling. It found ice loss from northeast Greenland could be six times greater by the end…
An international coalition led by Oregon State University (OSU) researchers released a new report that says the Earth’s vital signs have reached “code red” and…
A new study charts 45,000,000 years of Antarctic temperature change. Scientists have created the first charts of Antarctic ocean temperatures over the last 45 million…
As U.S. West warms, beavers will become a bigger boon to river water quality. As climate change worsens water quality and threatens ecosystems, the famous…
A new study has identified the cause of the lake’s water loss. In the last 25 years, the Salton Sea, California’s most polluted inland lake, has…
Sustainable Development Goal for wastewater treatment is not enough. While achieving the ambitious Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for wastewater treatment would result in significant improvements…
A new analysis led by Oxford University researchers has shown that the devastating Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption in January 2022 created the tallest volcanic plume…
Capacity to monitor emissions to increase a hundredfold in the next three years. Countries that signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement have committed themselves…
The Mississippi River, a major river in the United States, is featured in this multi-temporal radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. It is…
