Environment

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the Environmental Protection...

Somewhere, out in the cold depths of space, there is a space rock that could destroy a large chunk...

The average person is keeping nine types of secrets, ranging from having told a lie to covert romantic desires....

In a narrow strip of land along the Andes mountain range in central Chile, an Indigenous community...

In the search for more, new and cleaner sources of energy, a largely untapped resource is emerging: natural hydrogen.Unlike hydrogen produced from industrial processes, natural hydrogen forms through geological reactions that occur normally within...

For many of us, obsessing over how much sleep we get is a favourite pastime. Largely, that’s thanks to...

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Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and number crunchers. They are also storytellers, placing data within a broader scientific and societal context. How they tell these stories matters.In our work as ecologists, we find that...

More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas – together an area slightly larger than the state of California. For the most part, these places...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies?The Earth system is a vast web of...