The EPA's network consistently failed to capture air quality in communities of color across six major pollutants. The monitors are the key data source driving decisions about pollution reduction, ...

There could be billions more people living on Earth than currently thought, according to a new study which claims rural figures worldwide could be vastly underestimated. Currently, the UN estimates ...

The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, composed of more than 800 scientists from more than 400 institutions, announced ...

Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

Over a 16-month period, divers, underwater submersibles and remotely operated vehicles found 886 marine species that have all been deemed new to science.

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially ...

Most policy is designed for urban places, based on research in urban places. What about rural America? As the federal government looks to cut costs, we must advocate for research that represents rural ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

The state's overall population grew by 562,941 people during July 2023 and July 2024, but some counties grew at much faster ...

And before we even realise a new species exists, "we are losing that diversity", said Lucy Woodall, a marine biologist and ...

I was kind of just waiting for that email to come,” says one former Seattle-area NOAA worker, as experts discuss how reaction to the firings is playing out.

“Of the estimated one to two million marine species on Earth, only 240,000 are known to science,” Ocean Census says. Currently on a 35-day expedition to the South Sandwich Islands, the project joins ...