The westerlies, also known as westerly winds, have a crucial role to play in climate and weather, both on a local and global scale, by steering...
Plants competing for sunlight—stretching upward and outward to block each other’s exposure to the rays of the sun—is a usual sight. However, there is another competition...
As shown by electronic tags released in the Ganges river, plastic pollution can travel thousands of kilometers in a matter of months.
All over the world, coral health has been threatened by human activity. A new algal danger is leveraging coral’s already perilous condition in the Caribbean and...
Forests could help combat climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) during photosynthesis and retaining it in their biomass (roots, tree trunks, etc.).
Despite the continuous increase in carbon dioxide (CO2), the United States has backed out from the Paris climate accord
Located in the Somme Prairie Grove forest preserve in Cook County, Illinois, the Vestal Grove appears nothing like the buckthorn-choked and scrubby tangle that...
Climate scientists from Monash University have performed a new international study, which shows that ice loss in Antarctica has been continuing for several centuries...
In the past thousand years, there was complete destruction of the endemic megafauna of Madagascar and the Mascarene islands. An international research team anal...
According to a new study, meltwater lakes that develop at glacier margins cause ice to ebb relatively further and quicker than glaciers that end on land.