Plastic food packaging, caps and lids, and plastic bottles are the planet's predominant items of marine litter, according to the world's first overview of marine litter by usage type.

The world's forests form a vast network of carbon reservoirs, keeping carbon sequestered from the atmosphere where its ...

From the highest mountains to the deepest ocean, the driest desert to the lushest jungle, Earth displays a dazzling array of ...

The offspring of a common coral branching species set up a new home up to 100 kilometers or more from their parents in one of ...

It's a tale as old as time: parents don't like the company their children keep—and don't hesitate to say so. Often, parents ...

At skate parks, dirt jumps and racetracks around Australia, inclusion is made in the moment—by peers who encourage, coaches who spot and by digging crews who build and adapt trails, dirt mounds and ...

Even if you haven't heard of Botrytis cinerea, you've likely seen it—slowly growing in your store-bought blueberries, ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light ...

India's weather agency warned on Wednesday of the risk of upcoming "extreme" heat made worse by the potentially powerful El ...

Religion plays a greater role in growth, prosperity and economic development than many people realize. This is the finding of ...

In a new discovery, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science have found that something in the direction of a magnetic field can influence how molecules ...