Tens of thousands of fish have died off northwestern Australia, as a large and long-lasting marine heat wave intensifies. The fish kill at Gnoorea Beach near Karratha is concerning our team of scientists, as the hot

Map of study area. Credit: Environmental Research: Health (2025). DOI: 10.1088/2752-5309/ada84d Like many communities, the Tule River Tribe in the western foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range faces mounting environmental hazards like wildfire, drought, and

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Wary of a new federal administration that seeks more environmental deregulation, several groups are suing the state Agriculture Department and Pollution Control Agency to ensure progress in cleaning up nitrate pollution in

Used plastic bags at a dump. An estimated 855 billion sachets are sold globally each year with Southeast Asia consuming nearly half of the total. Credit: Sohail Nawaz from Pexels In a letter filed in federal

The Dead Sea has been dying for years. An abandoned lifeguard cabin, a rusty pier and mangled umbrellas are all that is left of Ein Gedi, once Israel’s flagship beach drawing international tourists to float in

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey The state of Maine was hit by a rare 3.8 magnitude earthquake Monday morning, a tremor that could be felt across the New England region. It is the second quake to shake

Earthquake distribution and receiver functions from a station away from the Cascade Range volcanoes. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01630-y New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When a wildfire notification goes off on your mobile phone, it can trigger all kinds of emotions and confusion. You might glance outside and see no smoke. Across the street, your neighbors

This plot of lead concentrations measured by the Xact instrument in Pico Rivera shows lead (Pb) vs. time with a significant spike in lead concentrations on January 9, 2025 following the Los Angeles fires. Credit: Caltech

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Curtin University-led report has revealed that Western Australia (WA) consumes more than three times the global average of raw materials and must change its economy to reduce waste and pollution, conserve

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Campaigns and social media often encourage people to make eco-friendly choices, like using less plastic or driving less. While these actions are important, focusing so much on what people do can distract

Researchers from Japan suggest that organic carbon aerosols from the severe wildfires in Canada during the summer of 2023 were transported over the Arctic Ocean and contributed to the formation of ice clouds at warm temperatures.

Bushfires have torn through thousands of acres in Little Desert National Park in the Australian state of Victoria. Firefighters were desperately trying to stop a cluster of fast-moving blazes in southeast Australia on Tuesday, as thousands

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past four decades, a new study has shown. Ocean temperatures were rising at about 0.06 degrees Celsius per decade in the

Ammonia Air Pollution as Seen from Space. Credit: Sally Pusede A study led by researchers from the University of Virginia has used satellite measurements to show the long-term persistence of air pollution inequalities tied to industrialized

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Media coverage of the recent fires in Los Angeles showed the heartbreaking damage in Pacific Palisades and elsewhere across Los Angeles County. People lost not only their houses but also the thriving

Map of the Last Ice Area (red contour) as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. The map includes the Queen Elizabeth Islands (QEI, red), the region north of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (LIA-N, green) and part

Expert judgment is integral throughout the process of projecting sea-level rise. Arrows indicate the flow of information from expert judgment (green arrows) and from probabilistic projections (blue arrows). Credit: Earth’s Future (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024EF005295 An interdisciplinary

Credit: Jan Richer Friis/Netflix In the Netflix series “La Palma,” a Norwegian family goes on holiday to the Canary Islands when a young researcher discovers alarming signs of an imminent volcanic eruption. Cumbre Vieja is an

The Shallow Underwater Buoy for Geodesy (SUBGEO) buoys were loaded from the seawall at the USF College of Marine Science. Credit: Sean Beckwith There’s often little warning when a tsunami strikes, but a research team at

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study led by The University of Western Australia has revealed new insights into the landscape profile of the Avon River Critical Zone Observatory in Western Australia. Ph.D. candidate Jessie Weller, from

Diatoms viewed under the scanning electron microscope. Credit: UDE/AG Phykologie/CCAC Europe’s water bodies are in poor condition: more than half of them are heavily polluted with chemicals. This is hardly surprising—every day, up to 70,000 different

The seafloor lander—or KOMBI (Krill Observational Mooring for Benthic Investigations)—developed at the Australian Antarctic Division, carries a range of instruments for observing krill and measuring water properties. The octopus was safely returned to the water after

Satellite image of the world’s largest iceberg A23a. The world’s biggest iceberg—more than twice the size of London—could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals.

The tool helps users investigate the impacts of different technological and behavioral options for decarbonization. Credit: Imperial College London A novel tool that can help organizations identify viable pathways to net zero emissions has been launched

The spatial anomaly percentage distribution for 2019–22, where the years are in increasing order from top to bottom. Panels (a), (d), (g), and (j) are the observed distribution of the four years; (b), (e), (h), and

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most of us are fortunate that, when we turn on the tap, clean, safe and high-quality water comes out. But a senate inquiry into the presence of PFAS or “forever chemicals” is

The team has employed UAVs in damage surveys for tornadoes. Credit: Kanglong Cai Tornadoes remain one of the most destructive natural hazards. Accurately recording tornado occurrences has been challenging, especially in areas where confirming their occurrence

Ireland and Scotland were put on high alert ahead of Storm Eowyn. Storm Eowyn caused havoc Friday as it battered Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland, killing one person and leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Existing policies to tackle environmental challenges fail to take into account that biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution are intertwined crises and produce compounding and intensifying impacts. Policy measures taken in isolation