Marine ecosystems are facing intensifying environmental stress from rising carbon dioxide levels, record-breaking marine ...

Divers in Florida are exploring an underwater mermaid reef near Palm Beach where sculptures double as artificial reefs that ...

Researchers studying ways to offset rising global temperatures have zeroed in on a deceptively simple target: blocking ...

IAEA Collaborating Centres are institutions selected to support the agency’s mission of promoting safe and peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology.

Scientists have discovered a newly identified marine fungus that can infect and kill toxic algae responsible for harmful blooms. The microscopic parasite, named Algophthora mediterranea, attacks algae ...

Models show that as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation gets weaker, the Gulf Stream will drift northwards. There are signs that this is already happening, and a more abrupt shift could wa ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Until 1970, the US dumped an estimated 17,000 tons of unspent chemical weapons from World War I and II off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean—and that disposal decision continues to haunt commercial ...

Earth experienced a period of intense, large-scale volcanism during the early Aptian. Around that time, it also experienced widespread ocean deoxygenation during the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a) as ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...