Sea ice that has persisted for at least 15 days and is held fast to the shoreline is called "fast ice." Around Antarctica, ...

Antarctica is losing ice quickly, in part because of climate change. Massive calving events, such as the one that formed the ...

Atlantic and Baltic herring are typical plankton-eating fish of central importance for the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic ...

Around the world, people are being encouraged to travel by foot, bike or public transport rather than by car. The reasons are ...

A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to ...

Under pressure from customers and investors, many U.S. companies have pledged to voluntarily reduce their impact on the ...

All-solid-state lithium metal batteries (LMBs) are promising energy storage solutions that incorporate a lithium metal anode ...

MIT physicists and colleagues have for the first time measured the geometry, or shape, of electrons in solids at the quantum ...

Strong emotional responses to environmental problems are remarkably common. We know people are angry about climate change—but ...

Cyclone Chido killed at least 94 people in Mozambique in its deadly rampage through the Indian Ocean last week, the country's ...

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it—an effect dismissed as an ...

Westlake University in China and the California Institute of Technology have designed a protein-based system inside living ...