Three years after bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off Mauritius, spilling 1000 tonnes of a new type of marine fuel oil, Curtin University-led research has confirmed the oil is still present in an environmentally sensitive mangrove forest close to important Ramsar conservation sites.

Whether you’re manufacturing cement, steel, chemicals, or paper, you need a large amount of heat.

The Milky Way galaxy has long been considered the ideal model for studying galactic evolution, but three new studies co-led by Stanford scientists reveal that the birth of our home galaxy may not be typical of how other galaxies evolved.

After more than two months of quiet, a volcanic fissure once again burst open on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula on November 20, 2024.

Better educating farmers and food processors about how to avoid post-harvest food losses – which amount to one-third of global food production, worth US$1 trillion annually – would reduce global food insecurity, according to researchers at McGill University.

King salmon have sustained people in Alaska for at least 12,000 years, but over the past three decades their populations have begun to dwindle.

Scientists around the world rely on ocean monitoring tools to measure the effects of climate change.

Earth’s hottest recorded year was 2023, at 2.12 degrees F above the 20th-century average. This surpassed the previous record set in 2016.

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers a solution to water scarcity during droughts amid the tug of economic development, population growth and climate uncertainty for water users in Western U.S. states.

Visualizing the potential impacts of a hurricane on people’s homes before it hits can help residents prepare and decide whether to evacuate.