Environment

A global study has revealed that mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) serves as the most stable long-term reservoir of carbon across diverse ecosystems, providing new insights into how carbon moves and stabilizes in soils.This post was […]

Southern European countries braced Friday for a punishing weekend heatwave, with temperatures predicted to hit up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and beyond, prompting health warnings for residents and tourists plus fears of wildfires.This […]

When researchers completed a national study of hazardous forever chemicals recently, they found that a South Carolina river had higher levels of pollution from the toxins than any other waterway they examined across the country.This […]

Water quality scientists predict the harmful algae bloom on western Lake Erie this year will be relatively mild and less severe than last year.This post was originally published on this site.

Residents of the world’s driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.This post was originally published on this site.

As dangerously high temperatures sweep across parts of the United States and southern Europe this week, emergency workers are racing to mitigate the public health risk of heatstroke.This post was originally published on this site.

Japan’s rainy season ended at the earliest date on record in the country’s western regions, meteorologists said Friday, as climate change makes global weather patterns less predictable.This post was originally published on this site.

A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology and led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health identifies the hidden geological mechanisms behind widespread uranium contamination in Eastern Karnataka, […]

NOAA and its research partners are forecasting a mild to moderate harmful algal bloom (HAB) in western Lake Erie this summer. This year’s bloom is expected to measure 3 on the HAB severity index, with […]

When an extreme weather event occurs, the probability or risk of other events can often increase, leading to what researchers call “cascading” hazards.This post was originally published on this site.