Explaining Dramatic Planet-Wide Changes After World's Last 'Snowball Earth' Event Sep. 18, 2024 — Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events ...
For many decades, the coca plant—the main ingredient in cocaine—has been grown almost exclusively in South America. But a new study shows that nearly half of northern Central America appears ...
Carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels traps heat near the Earth's surface, like the glass of a greenhouse. I imagined ... A new publication in Nature Water by UN University scientists ...
A mother has told a public inquiry into mental health deaths that the facility where her 20-year-old son died was “hell on Earth”. Melanie Leahy said her life had been “totally destroyed”.
By Karen Zraick Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse. Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early ...