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How much plastic do rivers dump into the world's oceans? The Ocean Cleanup decided to find out. They conducted what they say is the "first-ever estimate of plastic emissions from rivers" and the results are shocking, as in,...

How much plastic do rivers dump into the world's oceans? The Ocean Cleanup decided to find out. They conducted what they say is the "first-ever estimate of plastic emissions from rivers" and the results are shocking, as in,...

Tiny zircon crystals have allowed scientists at Australian National University (ANU) to paint a portrait of what Earth looked like over four billion years ago...

Biology may hold the clues to better batteries. An international team of scientists designed a porous material inspired by the vascular structure of leaves that could make energy transfers more efficient. Similar to the way...

Brexit - or Britain's vote to leave the European Union - remains controversial even as Prime Minister Theresa May begins the process of leaving. But it turns out this process may not have been the first Brexit ever. Research...

A new scientific study adds to the growing amount of evidence that shows pesticides are harming bees. The study published this month in Proceedings of the Royal Society B is the first to look at how neonicotinoid insecticides...

MIT and Tufts University researchers found silk is good for more than clothes, cool furniture, or bulletproof vests. They found a way to extract tiny silk building blocks, called nanofibrils, that vastly improve filtration...

The same phenomenon that creates ocean tides is responsible for certain small "low-frequency" San Andreas fault earthquakes, according to new research...

A new study published in Nature warns that climate change is pushing Earth's clouds higher and towards the poles. Why do these cloud patterns matter? For starters, there isn't much solar radiation near the poles, so the clouds...

Bacteria are often associated with disease - but in the future they could serve as a potent power source. University of Oxford researchers recently used bacteria to spin rotors in tiny 'wind farms' - and they think these...

Nearly 30 years ago, almost every country in the world signed the Montreal Protocol to ban chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) used in refrigerators, aerosols, and dry cleaning...

Canada's boreal forests may not suffer as much as other areas on Earth from climate change. Armed with climate data from as far back as 1960, scientists from Quebec and the United States scrutinized datasets of tree rings...

The Arctic is greening. Early this month NASA released research findings that Quebec, western Alaska, and some other areas turned greener from 1984 to 2012. NASA images reveal swaths of greenery in a part of the world we...

A new study backed by the U.S. government suggests a new link between cell phone use and cancer. The National Toxicology Program’s study is still incomplete at this time, yet partial findings reveal a relationship between...

Solar power has the potential to generate about 40 per cent of America's energy, yet the technology still has limitations. One is weather. Clouds and rain diminish solar cell efficiency, a problem for cities more overcast...