As spaceflight becomes increasingly routine, the environmental cost of reaching orbit is coming under scrutiny. A recent study published in NPJ: Climate and Atmospheric Science highlights an emerging ...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels jumped by a record amount in 2024 to push concentrations to their highest point since measurements began, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has ...

(Image credit: Toa55 via Getty Images) The amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2) entering Earth's atmosphere increased by a record amount in 2024, locking in further global warming, according to a new ...

科学家们说，近年来，南极野生动植物暴露在紫外线辐射中的时间有所增加，原因是臭氧层空洞在南极地区上空的时间更长了。臭氧层是地球上层大气中的气体保护屏障。 The ozone layer is healing, but it'll take until about the end of the century to restore completely. In Antarctica, the ...

Like many rural hospitals, the Tennessee-based health system struggles to recruit workers, forcing it to pay traveling nurses tens of millions of dollars every year to fill the gaps.

The weather pattern across South Texas so far this October has been remarkably consistent. There’s been a noticeable lack of any major weather system – no strong cold fronts, no widespread rainfall – ...

Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade material. But it also has a huge carbon footprint, accounting for around 8% of global ...