The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast amounts of carbon and the alarming levels of climate-heating carbon dioxide ...

For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, ...

South Africa certainly had abundance. There were seemingly endless tracts of fertile farmland; rich seams of precious gold, ...

The scholar, poet, and filmmaker devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin ...

Google renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for U.S.-based users of Google Maps. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said the renaming is “incorrect.” ...

International researchers use satellite imagery and AI to assess oil spill damage to mangroves in Nigeria's Niger Delta.

An international research team led by the University of Galway has used earth observation radar data to map oil pipeline networks covering a 9000 km2 region in the Niger Delta, pinpointing where crude ...

Scientists from the University of Galway have used advanced new satellite tracking methods to lay bare the devastation caused ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy ...

Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy instruments for mitigating global heating, a good quarter are from 2020 or ...