Environment

Environment

Water’s worldwide travels

Scientists track the movement of ‘virtual water,’ used in the production of goods and exchanged among nations.

Environment

Suffocating waters

Coastal animals around the world are spending more time in or around waters with too little oxygen.

Environment

Climate coolers

Reducing methane, soot in the atmosphere could curb climate change.

Earth

Water, water, not everywhere

Satellites show a drop in Earth’s groundwater levels.

Animals

Tiny earthworms’ big impact

Invasive earthworms change North American landscapes, for better or worse.

Environment

Ozone hits a new low

Scientists discover a major thinning in the protective atmosphere over Arctic.

Environment

Cleaning clothes dirties oceans

Washing polyester fabrics sends plastics to sea.

Animals

An energy lesson from panda poop

Scientists say microbes in panda feces may help convert grasses into fuel.

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.