Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to ...

For the average person, trying to avoid plastics can feel overwhelming—and maybe pointless. Our writer asked two experts how ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler Some revolutions begin not with technology, but with a feeling. For Gregg Treinish, that feeling was ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the vast majority of it is still unexplored! So, you can bet your bottom dollar ...

In a developing country like Sri Lanka, one of the main challenges, is developing attitudes and social values of its citizens ...

This special report focuses on the political firestorm over Delhi's severe air pollution, with Rahul Gandhi leading the charge against the BJP government. He stated, 'We need a collective national ...

National Geographic Explorers participating in the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Ocean Expeditions are conducting scientific research across Earth’s most crucial ecosystem. Through ...

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Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

How plastic sinks to the deep sea — over time, sunlight and waves break large plastic items into tiny fragments that stick to marine snow. These particles gradually sink through the ocean, carrying ...

This episode visualizes the global crisis of ocean plastic pollution through detailed mapping and satellite data. We trace how plastics travel from rivers and coastlines into vast gyres, forming ...