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Existe una creciente cantidad de datos que sugieren que la fracturación hidráulica (fracking) puede tener efectos adversos sobre el medio ambiente. Un nuevo estudio, sin embargo, sugiere que las poblaciones que viven cerca de sitios de fracking, también tienen una mayor incidencia de complicaciones de salud.

The world may not be well prepared for the next significant tsunami, reports Northwestern University tsunami expert Emile A. Okal in a new study that includes a “wisdom index” for 17 tsunamis since 2004.

A new Yale-led study reveals that we’re disposing of more than twice as much solid waste as we thought we were here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.

Published on Sept. 21 in the Nature Climate Change journal and co-authored by Yale professor Julie Zimmerman and University of Florida professor Timothy G. Townsend, this study found that based on landfill measurements instead of government estimates, analysis of figures revealed that America tosses five pounds of trash per person per day.

Let that soak in for a moment. Five pounds of garbage. Per day. Per person. But it gets better, and by better, I mean worse.

New research has found rising sea levels and stronger storms associated with climate change will produce longer-lasting, more intense periods of flooding.

La inmensidad de los océanos del planeta hacen pensar que es casi imposible que nuestras acciones podrían llevarlos a un punto de no retorno, pero un nuevo informe ha encontrado que estamos causando una alarmante disminución de los ecosistemas marinos y las especies que dependen de ellos.