A new study may have a solution for both acid mine drainage and natural radioactivity in hydraulic fracturing – fracking –   wastewater that can be found in 'flowback fluid.' In…

While the number of killing frosts in southern Florida has remained unchanged since 1984, the number a short distance away declined enough that researchers are implicating global warming, and noted…

The assumption has long been that if mercury is increasing in fish in the North American and European Arctic, the same is true of fish elsewhere in the Arctic. Not so, according to conservation…

Caterpillars of two species of butterflies in Colorado and California aren't waiting for China and India to stop belching out so much CO2 - according to a paper in the journal Functional Ecology,…

Almost every study of food production over the last decade has claimed it has implications for global warming, but in reality the resources required to grow food and raise livestock and grains vary…

New series of webinars on Earth observations and the water cycle – Check details at the end of this article.  Modern explorers have much better tools than yesteryear, if not yesterday. The tools…

Children's congenital heart defects may be associated with their mothers' exposure to specific mixtures of environmental toxins during pregnancy, according to research presented at the American Heart…

The mountain pine beetle is killing lodgepole pine and jack pine forests in the Western United States, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Alberta and could spread east to the Maritimes. Yes…

People who live in regions where there is a real change of seasons know that plants go 'dormant' in the winter and then spring to life again as the weather warms. But a new study found a counter-…

Protecting carbon-storing forests in the developing world may be easier than mobilizing government bureaucracies; a recent paper finds that local communities, using simple tools like ropes and sticks…