The changes are most visible in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia. Scientists say that the Gulf of Aden and the Red ...

Researchers at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment found that ocean saltiness can influence the strength of El Niño, a climate ...

The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly ...

"We often think of plants as the lungs of the planet. Animals are the circulatory system." Scientists make incredible discovery after studying whale urine: 'We soon realized that was only part of the ...

People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of ...

Last year, there was a major breakdown in airline movement across the world because of tech failure and it cost the world trillions of dollars and led to dislocations in social movements, official ...

One of the ocean's saltiest regions has become 30 per cent less salty - sparking fears the Gulf Stream could be inching closer to a catastrophic collapse.

Africa's ground is shifting. Tectonic forces are tearing the continent apart along the East African Rift. Satellites and GPS ...

Seabird populations across vast stretches of the Pacific and even into Antarctic waters are collapsing under a combination of ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

Indicator species are living organisms that tell us that something has changed or is going to change in their environment. They can be easily observed, and studying them is considered a cost-effective ...