The inner solar system is home to four rocky worlds that formed under the intense heat of the young Sun. This video explores Mercury, the scarred planet that is slowly shrinking; Venus, where a ...

Insects, animals and other life are often active beneath snowpack, and depend on a microhabitat called the subnivium to survive the cold.

A confidence game succeeds because the victim wants to believe. The contemporary climate movement relies heavily on these tactics.

The code provides a systemic legal framework for farm fires, pollutants, and human-wildlife conflicts, as well as carbon markets and environmental rights.

A new study suggests that moons orbiting free-floating planets, with dense hydrogen atmospheres and tidal heating, could ...

China is cleaning up its sulfur pollution, but the drop in airborne particles is revealing additional warming that concerns scientists.

A planet orbiting the star GJ 887 may be the closest object to Earth with good prospects for supporting life, although confirming that will not be easy. The newly discovered “super-Earth” with a mass ...

Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules at the final stages of development. Unlike traditional methods that rely on ...

The Minister of Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, has told Parliament that the government plans to eventually ban the importation of gas cylinders into Ghana as part of efforts to ...

Maintaining work-life balance can be a challenge, but these entrepreneurs say it's worth it to be able to run their shops from home.

Pyrogenic carbon, a carbon rich material produced when biomass burns or is converted into biochar, is widely found in soils, sediments, and aquatic environments around the world. Scientists have long ...

Australia has always been hot. On average, summer is now one degree warmer than it was 50 years ago. But that number hides ...