
Environment
Gas stoves can spew lots of pollution, even when they’re turned off
A new study finds they can leak benzene and other harmful chemicals into homes, sometimes at very high levels.
By Laura Allen
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A new study finds they can leak benzene and other harmful chemicals into homes, sometimes at very high levels.
Groundwater provides drinking water to billions of people and is used to water crops worldwide.
Smoke drifts. Fish eggs float downstream. Where such drifting things end up may seem a mystery. But research can predict where they’ll end up.
Humans are changing the world in profound ways. Some scientists think those changes have launched a new epoch in Earth’s history: the Anthropocene.
Scientists explain why everyone needs to value the soils beneath our feet — and why we should not view them as dirt.
Dust and tar blown onto high mountains, like the Himalayas, boost the melting of snow and ice far more than scientists had realized. Here’s why.
A forest flourished within 1,000 kilometers of the South Pole. That was a while ago, as in millions of years ago.
A recent analysis of the benefits of massive efforts to plant more trees triggered a firestorm of controversy.
Despite one oil company famously using an Apatosaurus as its logo, oil, gas and coal don’t come from dinosaurs. They do, however, come from a long time ago.
Methane explosions 12,000 years ago left huge craters in bedrock on the Arctic seafloor. Scientists worry more could be on the way today as Earth’s ice sheets melt.