A global study of over 66,000 people reveals that susceptibility to misinformation varies across age, gender, education, and political ideology.
Europe experienced its warmest March since records began, as climate change continues to push temperatures to unprecedented levels, European Union scientists said on Tuesday.
A study recently published in Nature indicates that human activities have a negative effect on the biodiversity of wildlife hundreds of kilometers away.
The damage climate change will inflict on the world’s economy is likely to have been massively underestimated.
Fear of space has grown alongside space programs. Worries about asteroid strikes and over-militarization lean into deeper fears about space as the unknown.
NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.
Nearly a third of fungi species assessed by international conservation experts were found to be at risk of extinction from threats like agriculture, deforestation and urban sprawl.
Chewing gum polymers, both natural and synthetic, can release microparticles when they are worn down by chewing.
The UN estimates the world’s population to be around 8.2 billion but this number is projected to hit 10 billion by the mid-2080. But it turns out researchers may have underestimated how many people are actually on Earth.
Microplastics are silently sabotaging the planet's greenery, curbing photosynthesis, and threatening food security.
Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, mostly because of ocean water expanding as it warms, or thermal expansion.
The continued release of greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere could increase the longevity of space junk in low Earth orbit, a new paper reveals.
The density of chain grocery stores has increased globally by 23.6 percent over 15 years (from 2009 to 2023). People in countries with the most chain grocery stores per person buy more unhealthy food and are more likely to be obese.
In 1982, the Syrian government besieged the city of Hama, killing tens of thousands of its own citizens in sectarian violence.The grandchildren of women who were pregnant during the siege still bear marks of it in their genomes.
Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current down 20% by 2050.
