Environment

Environment

Swirling seas of plastic trash

Long-lasting oceanic garbage threatens marine life.

Oceans

Life beneath the ‘berg

Scientists find Antarctic icebergs play a new and bigger role in the climate cycle.

Environment

Busy bacteria leave big mark

Earth’s earliest life-forms built mounds on an Antarctic lake bottom.

Environment

Floor of Gulf got slimed

Oil from BP spill was likely dragged down by bacterial goo.

Environment

Planting seeds for better plastic

Scientists are working to put the bio in plastics.

Environment

Underwater racket

The oceans are getting louder, and scientists want to know what that means for marine residents.

Tech

The energy of an Internet search

Websurfing has a bigger footprint than you might think.

Environment

Lakes, too, feel global warming

Environment

What’s in your receipt?

Here's one way to avoid BPA this holiday season.

Environment

The carbon dioxide coral generation

More acidic oceans could mean fewer young corals.

Environment

The carbon dioxide coral generation

Environment

Gulf oil finds many paths

Questions, and lots of oil, remain months after Gulf disaster.