From soda bottles to polyester clothing, ethylene is part of many products we use every day. 

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that the spreading of seizures through the brain can be suppressed depending on the amount of pressure within the brain, an important discovery that may revolutionize the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy. 

A key theory that attributes the climate evolution of the Earth to the breakdown of Himalayan rocks may not explain the cooling over the past 15 million years, according to a Rutgers-led study.

Sea levels in many areas across the global ocean are rising.

Over millions of years, Earth’s summits and valleys have moved and shifted, resulting in the dramatic landscapes of peaks and shadows we know today. 

Over the past 30 years, wildfires have gotten bigger, stronger, and occurred more often. 

For more than a century, a guiding principle in seismology has been that earthquakes recur at semi-regular intervals according to a “seismic cycle.” 

When University of Michigan wildlife ecologist Nyeema Harris started her multiyear camera survey of West African wildlife, she sought to understand interactions between mammals and people in protected areas such as national parks.

Around the globe, communities are concerned with rain and storms.

The population of threatened southern sea otters in Elkhorn Slough, an estuary in Central California, has made a significant comeback as a result of Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sea Otter Program.