Intrusion of saltwater from coasts is a risk for freshwater systems as the climate changes. A survey's results send advice to governments and decision makers on this risk.
News by Clarissa Wright
Super sensitive receivers need to be paired with light beam based communications technology to transmit signals and information scross the great expanse of space. This could transform space exploration.
A gigantic sea creature has been uncovered on a road construction route in Leicestershire, England. What is it?
What have pumpkins and cucumbers got in common? Genetically they can work together to fight off a common enemy - salinity, which is worsening in soils with climate change.
Halloween draws near, so it was quite fitting for a photographer in England to come across a very rare phenomenon through the mist of a mountainside - the Brocken Spectre. Is it as ghostly as it sounds?
New species is a crustacean that “looks like a panda”, as revealed by taxonomic analysis in Japan.
Rocky planets orbiting small stars might be able to support life, based on new science models developed beyond the possibilities of TRAPPIST-1.
A team hiked mountains in South Africa to discover hidden clues about a tsunami that happened 3 billion years ago when a gigantic meteorite hit. While devastating for Earth's life, who, or what, could take advantage of the event?
A geologist and his team have found lead in ice in one of the most regions of the world. Find out why and where.
For the first time, researchers apply a critical eye to track the afterlife of waste in Norway to find not as much is recycled as previously thought, and some authorities have shown inaccurate figures.
An experiment involving growing tomato plants and spraying them with water finds that the size of the water droplets influence how healthy they become.
Is it possible to strive for climate goals without the shadow of social and economic inequalities? Research has a clear answer.
On the edge of the Arctic circle is Europe's largest gigafactory, which promised to generate electricity for a sustainable future. What has happened to make those promises now seem unlikely?
Coin tossers have vandalised Yellowstone's Morning Glory hydrothermal pool, clogging its vent and changing its colour. Why has this happened?
Experts are coming together to redefine the meaning of sustainable fishing, seeing the ocean destruction that has been called in its name.
See the top two photos from the Ocean Photographer of the Year award for this year, 2024, from the winning snap in Mexican waters, and the second in Shetland.
A chick from a "deadly dinosaur-like" bird has hatched in the Cotswolds after 25 years of team effort.
A sail can be seen hurtling across the night sky after being deployed by NASA. Why the need to "sail in space" and how is it staying in orbit, while "wobbling" around?
A container ship arrived recently in Western Australia's Fremantle Harbour, damaging a historic tall ship used for training youth to sail, and "clipping" the nearby maritime museum. Was the weather was to blame?
Lunar soil recovered from tha side of the Moon never reached before by landing craft suggest the Moon may have been cloaked in a magma ocean in its early history. We take a look at the new evidence.