The Himalayas are often seen as one of Earth's great natural barriers, separating the heavily populated and industrialized regions of South Asia from the remote Tibetan Plateau. But new research, ...

A team of researchers was able to assemble a rare three-dimensional view of how carbon moves through the atmosphere across different regions and over time.

Scientists analyzed unhatched bird eggs and found traces of both banned and modern pesticides, revealing pollution moving through ecosystems.

Potato leaves near a war zone captured airborne forever chemicals that soil tests missed, revealing recent hidden pollution.

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of ...

As final negotiations for an international plastics treaty get underway this week in Busan, South Korea, scientists warn that the global plastics crisis is far more dangerous than previously thought.

Extreme heat and particulate matter (PM 2.5) pollution are among the deadliest environmental hazards that threaten humans and ecosystems. Their co-occurrence, known as compound heat-pollution events, ...

From high above, the scale is almost impossible to comprehend. What looks like a landscape is actually a vast sea of garbage.

Humanity’s artificial glow is swallowing the night sky. Even astronomers in this remote observatory in the South American desert cannot escape it.

Hey there, Looking Forward fam. Happy Earth Day (and Earth Week, and Earth Month) — a time of year when sustainability is elevated in the global consciousness, and my inbox is full of vaguely ...

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Reusable space technology has led to a rise in space transportation at a lower cost, as popularized by commercial spaceflights of companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. What is poorly understood, ...