The New Mexico Environment Department has lifted harmful algae bloom advisories for Santa Cruz Lake in Santa Fe County and ...

The New Mexico Environment Department is lifting its advisory for a harmful algae bloom issued earlier this year. In late September, the department found harmful algae blooms ...

Astronauts can’t rely on food deliveries from Earth forever, especially as missions get longer and travel goes further into ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Earth’s earliest atmosphere may have done more than shield the planet from the Sun. New research suggests the sky itself helped supply early life with key sulfur-based molecules, long thought to ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

Dolichospermum, a type of cyanobacteria thriving in Lake Erie’s warming waters, has been identified as the surprising culprit behind the lake’s dangerous saxitoxins—some of the most potent natural ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

Coral reefs may look tranquil at first glance, but clear water often hides the slow rise in ocean acidity that reshapes entire ecosystems. To understand these changes, scientists are turning to ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...

New research suggests that higher-latitude marine environments, such as those around the Selmaneset section in western Svalbard, seen here, may have provided a refuge for sea life during the Great ...

While the Earth has gone through some dramatic climate changes in its 4.6-billion-year history, natural processes like silicate weathering can help return things to a comfortable equilibrium. A new ...