The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

Intensive agriculture leads to the loss of biodiversity – especially in arable farming, where large quantities of pesticides and fertilizers are used. Not only is biodiversity often declining, the ...

As human spaceflight continues to pushes boundaries, scientists try to understand — and minimise — the physical and ...

According to a new study, Chinook salmon struggle due to human impacts, affecting size and spawning success. (Jesse Anderson, Cramer Fish Sciences) Chinook salmon are facing unprecedented challenges ...

Every cell in the body holds a story written in three billion letters. For decades, scientists struggled to translate that code into something they understood and could use. On a sunny Santa Cruz ...

Note: This story is intended to be listened to. Text associated below is simply a transcript of the audio. I’ve been thinking about human-caused climate change and what it means to be resilient in the ...

Laysan albatrosses (above) and California sea lions (below) are among the marine predator species tracked by the TOPP program. (Photos by Dan Costa, UC Santa Cruz) Humpback whale. (Photo by Bruce Mate ...

Scientists are raising alarms over new proposals to light up the night sky from space using reflective satellites and ...

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - July 23, 2023: The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the School of ...