New research shows that artificial light at night lengthens the plant growing season in cities, overshadowing the effect of ...

Early-warning signs of marsh decline provided by the model could be crucial for conservation. “Once [marsh] loss occurs, that ...

Regardless of the patchwork of regulations aimed at limiting plastic bag use in the United States, new research indicates ...

A new device enables existing submarine cable networks to measure deep-sea movements. It could ultimately help improve tsunami warnings and climate monitoring.

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

A new study investigates how diffuse light affects evapotranspiration and carbon uptake across forest, grassland, shrub, and ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

Yet the isotopic signature of DBC in the ocean does not match what rivers alone supply. This discrepancy suggests there are ...

The locations of humpback whale catches in the early 20th century indicate that most climate models overestimate the historic ...

Mother’s Day Storm? Why not! Bastille Day Storm? Mais oui! Space scientists make the case for a standardized naming ...

An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a ...