It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...

The Earthquake of 1952 is a well-known natural disaster that caused widespread destruction in Kern County about 75 years ago, ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Trace element pollution is a pressing issue in the field of environmental toxicology and public health, especially with the expansion of mining and mineral ...

After the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study ...

The action actually is happening at quite a spectacular pace,” Walker says. “But because human lives are so short, we’re not ...

A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating through urban air, far exceeding earlier estimates. Road dust and rainfall ...

Mountain regions around the world are heating up faster than the lands below them, triggering dramatic shifts in snow, rain, ...

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...