An international research team has for the first time linked glacier-fed mountain rivers with higher rates of plant material decomposition, a major process in the global carbon cycle. The loss of ...

Scientists are worried about melting Arctic permafrost. When permanently frozen ground turns out to be not so permanent, structures built on permafrost can catastrophically collapse — and the bizarre, ...

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA – Flying in the face of years of scientific belief, University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated that ...

The most informative chemical test of all is simple heating; just warming the sample up and seeing what happens. Some substances, such as naphthalene, melt cleanly to a clear liquid; others, such as ...