The scientists found that polymer type and particle size both affect a microplastic’s optical properties. But color plays the ...

Climate scientists have discovered that microplastics and nanoplastics are helping to drive global warming by absorbing ...

Emerging Pacific Ocean heat, combined with ongoing human-caused global warming, is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes.

Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

"We can say with confidence that overall they are warming agents." The post Earth Screams in Agony as Microplastics Found to ...

Global warming, a topic that’s simultaneously about science and politics. The media loves to spin a nice, tidy solution: stop burning fossil fuels, cut CO2, and voilà — problem solved! Except, there’s ...

The findings, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, show that colored micro- and nanoplastics suspended in the ...

Coral adaptation to ocean warming and marine heatwaves will likely be overwhelmed without rapid reductions of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to an international team of scientists. Coral ...