The figures suggest that plastic, a material that has existed for barely a century, now outweighs all animal life combined, underscoring the unprecedented environmental impact of modern industrial ...

Forest soils have an important role in protecting our climate: They remove large quantities of methane—a powerful greenhouse ...

A possible rocky exoplanet referred to as a 'cold Earth' that could orbit on the outer edge of the habitable zone has been found around a star 146 light-years away.

New research shows that even healthy tropical peat forests can release more warming gases due to water level changes and ...

The current lifetime of this ozone-eating gas has reduced by approximately a year and a half per decade.

Rewetting wetlands can help lock carbon in the ground, but fully flooding them may backfire by boosting methane emissions.

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a potent ...

Their new study shows that Earth’s massive drop in temperature after the dinosaurs went extinct could have been caused by a large drop in calcium levels in the ocean. The study showed that the ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Ben Mather receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Dutkiewicz ...

The power of volcanoes to change Earth’s climate may not be as ancient as previously thought. Throughout our planet’s history, the climate has fluctuated between “icehouse” and “greenhouse” conditions ...