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Encouraging people in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa to adopt a low-carbon lifestyle could help to cut global household emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide by…

With wildfires increasing in frequency, severity, and size in the Western U.S., researchers are determined to better understand how smoke impacts air quality, public health,…

How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature tolerance evolution. The maintenance of biodiversity…

A pioneering method to simulate how microscopic particles move through the air could boost efforts to combat air pollution, a study suggests. Tiny particles found…

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat…

A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can…

A new international study led by researchers at Tulane University shows that the El Niño and La Niña climate patterns affect nearly half of the…

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and…

A study by scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that implementing robust air pollution control measures could mean Southeast Asian countries…

If you’ve ever sat waiting at the doctor’s office to give a blood sample, you might have wished there was a way to find the…

Scientists, who have spent more than a decade examining the impact of artificial light at night on the world’s coasts and oceans, have shown that…

As coral reefs struggle to adapt to warming waters, high levels of pollution and sea-level rise, ballooning sea-urchin populations are threatening to push some reefs…