There has been a flurry of headlines this summer about a "nuclear coffin" leaking radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean.

New research from the University of Montana suggests that streamflow variability brought on by climate change will negatively affect the survival of salamanders.

Volcanoes are often feared for their destructive power, but a new study reminds us that they can foster new growth.

Maps derived from satellite data show island conditions post-storm.

Surge in microplastics could serve as marker for “the Great Acceleration”.

Scientists study how a massive input of external nutrients alters marine ecosystems.

The important nutrient phosphate may be less abundant in the global ocean than previously thought, according to a new paper in Science Advances. 

An overwhelming scientific consensus affirms that for thousands of species across the globe, climate change is an immediate and existential threat.

Bad wells tend to get excluded from studies on groundwater levels, a problem that could skew results everywhere monitoring is used to decide government policies and spending.

University of Arizona ecology and evolutionary biology processor Brian Enquist and former doctoral student Vanessa Buzzard trekked across the Americas: from moist, tropical jungles in Panama to the frigid boreal forests in Colorado to the wet temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest.