The natural world gives us the air that we breathe, the food that we eat, and a bounty of medicines and materials. Preserving ...

Researchers have found that green clay tennis courts are able to absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide via enhanced rock ...

Planet Earth is basically a farm. How and what we produce for consumption will shape our future. Here are five ways farmers ...

The US electricity transmission system is often called the world's largest machine, with around 650,000 miles of high voltage ...

Recycling the copper and steel of old oil rigs into wind and solar infrastructure could cut billions of tons of emissions—and ...

The scarlet monkeyflower's ability to keep pace with a punishing drought signals some plants can adapt quickly to climate ...

Replacing the turbines on existing wind farms with newer, more powerful and efficient models could double the amount of electricity produced by onshore wind energy in the United States – without ...

The Eurasian blue tit has been seen lacing nests with cigarette butts. It might be acting as a weapon against parasites.

In the 1990s, the divide between wild and farmed fish felt moral as much as culinary. Farmed salmon became shorthand for ...

Manufacturing food, chemicals, cement, and steel requires heat, and lots of it. Nearly all of this heat today comes from burning fossil fuels. Industrial heating contributes about 18% of global ...

A host of agricultural challenges—crops’ vulnerability to drought, massive nitrogen pollution and greenhouse gas emissions—share one elegant solution: getting plants to grow longer, deeper roots. It ...

A gradually waning appetite for meat over the past twenty years has pushed the greenhouse gas emissions of US diets down by 35%, finds a surprising and hopeful new study. The country’s emissions still ...