It can be hard to connect a certain amount of average global warming with one's everyday experience, so researchers at MIT ...

Preliminary data found that in 2023, some of Earth's natural carbon sinks momentarily stopped working — a troubling sign of a ...

Plants, trees, and soil absorbed almost no net CO2 last year. If this continues, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

Humanity is “on the precipice” of shattering Earth’s limits, and will suffer huge costs if we fail to act on biodiversity ...

A new report by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has documented an average 73% decline in the abundance of monitored ...

Sources of rare earth elements are frequently associated with volcanoes, dormant or otherwise. Here on Earth, rare-earth ...

Humans produced a record 41.2 billion tons of carbon pollution in 2023. Without the planet’s carbon sinks performing their essential ecosystem services at a normal rate, reaching net zero will not be ...

Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle layer under growing mountain ranges. This odd process, called lithospheric dripping, ...

The last few years have been some of the most exciting and crucial in the race to address climate change, and it’s only going ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 18. Final touches are being applied in the COP29 Blue Zone, Director of Venue Management Department ...

Toxic trace elements such as lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium naturally occur in small quantities in coastal seas. However ...