Microplastics, tiny plastic particles found in everyday products from face wash to toothpaste, are an emerging threat to ...

Rising global temperatures are driving the sharp decline in terrestrial water storage. This trend isn’t likely to change, scientists say.

Despite advances in wastewater treatment, tiny plastic particles called microplastics are still slipping through, posing ...

Scientists and the nonprofit Friends of Casco Bay were well into a three-year study on PFAS levels in Casco Bay, shifting to other sampling areas following the spill. The overall project is analyzing ...

Egyptians may have harnessed hydraulic power not only for agriculture and transport but also for building pyramids. This ...

Remarkable adaptations to toxins have already inspired the development of a gel to encapsulate cadmium so it can be safely ...

Despite its Earth-like rivers and lakes of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan seems oddly lacking in river deltas — geological formations that are typically rich in historical clues. Using data from ...

Researchers at Louisiana State University’s Coastal Systems Ecology Lab, led by wetland scientist and professor Robert ...

An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Fatmuckets, pocketbooks, pigtoes and other unfortunately named and endangered invertebrates don’t receive the same level of funding or public sympathy as game species that make their home in The ...