An international team led by researchers from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) has identified a key ...

Scientists led by the University of Southampton have revealed that an imbalance of nutrients in seawater can cause coral disease—possibly to a greater extent than that from heat stress of warming ...

Chocolate is the food of the gods. The name of the tree from which the confection originates, Theobroma cacao, combines the ...

In the past, scientists thought that prehistoric peoples only traveled briefly through high-altitude mountain areas, rather ...

A new wildfire risk assessment tool that takes social vulnerability into account indicates that more than 400 communities in ...

On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona's Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn't a cloud or dust, then ...

Not all earthquake faults behave the same. Some stick and snap, causing earthquakes. Others move slowly over time.

A solar storm like the one that caused a nine-hour blackout across Quebec in 1989 could have even more dramatic effects if it ...

Excavations from 2015 to 2021 on the ancient site of Motza, just west of Jerusalem, revealed a sprawling settlement with some ...

Climate change undoubtedly affects lakes and the functioning of their ecosystems, but seasonal impacts are not always ...

Climate change is likely to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into parts of South America that have never faced these diseases, ...

PFAS, often called "forever chemicals," are notoriously difficult to remove from the environment. Their extreme chemical ...