Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

developed and issued two guiding documents to serve as roadmaps for this effort: the 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic ...

In addition to swearing in Dr. Mike Sfraga as the United States’ first Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic Region, the State ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

In the race to meet the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Earth observation (EO) satellite data is ...

The SETI Institute awarded the first Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina. Yanchilina will focus ...

The Bezos Earth Fund has quietly removed a page about an environmental commitment after President Trump revoked a Biden-era ...

Earth is crossing the 1.5°C limit outlined in the Paris Agreement, beyond which scientists predict catastrophic harm to ...

Michael E. Mann, Ph.D., a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of ...

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...