More than 90% of plastic waste ends up in the soil, where it breaks down into microplastics that are invisible to the naked ...

The global food system faces growing risks as modern farming practices undermine the resilience of the world's soils, ...

Fungi are vital to natural ecosystems by breaking down dead organic material and cycling it back into the environment as ...

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language for the General ...

At first glance, plants may seem passive—but beneath their stillness lies a world of complexity and constant activity. Plants ...

A team of researchers at the University of Miami has developed a global atmospheric modeling framework that blends powerful ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

Around the world, women on average live longer than men. This striking pattern holds true across nearly all countries and ...

Extreme weather events, from heavy rainfall to heat waves and droughts, are increasingly threatening crop yields globally, so ...

Bacterial styrene oxidase isomerase has been known to science for more than three decades, but its mechanism of action has ...

A large proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions that are currently being released into the atmosphere by human activities ...

Across the United States, more schools are implementing policies restricting cell phones as concerns about digital ...