Drought and an ailing aquifer were major topics of conversation when NASA scientists visited with farmers in the Texas High Plains.

Last week, FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton issued a memorandum outlining the agency’s scope and essentially redefining “emergency management.”

The “ungraceful exit” of Chronicle Heritage leaves many researchers fearful for the future

Abstract. Wildland–urban interface fires are becoming more frequent, and their impacts on adjacent urban centers are increasing. In January 2025, the Eaton

In a first, researchers realistically calculated how solar farms in the Gobi Desert improve air quality in northern Chinese cities

On the surface, the arid expanses of the Mojave Desert may seem inhospitable and largely removed from the global carbon cycle. But beneath the surface, its mineral-rich soils are running a carbon cycl...

The bright orange plumes of water scientists first noticed billowing across a river in Alaska's Brooks Range in 2018 were even more acidic and metallic than water leached from metal mines, despite the...

A new method for handling satellite aerosol observations boosts simulation accuracy, with potential benefits for weather and climate forecasting.

Jack Shaw explores how animal emissions contribute to rising temperatures and how heat stress, in turn, harms animal health and productivity

Boldly going where no casserole dish has gone before.

Researchers examined nearly 75,000 emergency department visits for asthma and COPD between February 2016 and December 2022. The study found the risk of an emergency...

The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns

Engineered fluids could extract metals from fracked reservoirs, supplying materials for solar cells and electric vehicles

Experimental reactor needed much more uranium and heavy water than the country could muster

To get to the bottom of this perplexing behavior, Science interviewed the agent

The first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but 'there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset,' a new study reports.

Ice cores from Tibet's Guliya Plateau extend Earth's glacial record by over 100,000 years.

A new study reports balloon-borne, in situ measurements of dust transport to the tropopause layer over the northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, offering a fresh observational perspective on a process that ...

Abstract. Epidemiological and occupational studies increasingly link respirable particulate matter (PM), including mineral dust, exposure with elevated lun

Abstract. Stationary air quality networks are increasingly being used to refine urban air pollution exposure assessments and inform local government decisi

Air quality across the country has improved greatly over the decades, as shown in Environmental Protection Agency reports. These improvements are good news overall, but lingering effects of past air p...

Snakes can elicit a wide range of human responses, including fear, disgust, awe and admiration. Past studies suggest that both humans and nonhuman primates, such as monkeys and apes, tend to quickly n...

Cheez-It Protein Original packs 7 grams of protein per serving, but that isn’t the whole story. Dietitians explain how the new high-protein Cheez-Its compare with regular Cheez-Its in terms of protein...

Dust events are increasing across California's Central Valley, with about 35 events each year concentrated in the southern valley Most dust events are usually short-lived (≤1 h), occur in afterno...

Germany-based sociologist Güllistan Yarkin has been accused of ‘public denigration of the Turkish state’ over passages relating to treatment of Kurds and the Armenian genocide

Players have been injured by lightning during games, and a strike to the stands could hurt a lot of fans.

'Late that night, in absolute darkness, it hit, with the far shrieking screams, the queer rumbling of a vast and irresistible freight train,' Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote of the storm.

Mineral dust-activated halogen chemistry is an important yet under-studied natural sink of the tropospheric ozone with implications for the Earth’s oxidative balance, crop yields, and human health.

New research reveals that natural soil minerals critically control the fate of lead locked into chloropyromorphite—a stable mineral formed during phosphorus-based lead remediation. Negatively ch...

An amateur astronomer searching satellite maps for a Quebec camping spot accidentally discovered a massive ancient impact crater. Scientists later found shatter cones that confirmed the 25-kilometer-w...

The calls of the bare-throated bellbird and red-legged seriema can exceed 120 decibels.

The heat required to erase secondary magnetic signals in clay can aid researchers in distinguishing ancient pottery from modern forgeries.

Measurements of the reactivity of volatile organic compounds emitted by urban trees show that they contribute more to ground-level ozone than do other, human-produced forms of emissions.