Using electricity and seawater chemistry would be more economical and efficient than today’s direct air capture technologies ...

A study of more than 120 million trips finds that Americans' rush to save time on the road comes at an outsize environmental ...

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 ...

We may be overlooking the potential of crushed rock to trap tons of carbon across swathes of arid farmland, a new study shows. Rock weathering has such significant carbon-fixing potential that ...

With as much protein as quinoa, marigolds are a surprising untapped nutritional resource, research finds. What’s more their ...

New research complicates the long-held belief that climate policy is a trade-off between cost and carbon, adding a third ...

Scientists cracked the case of a single plastic cap using isotope chemistry and ocean current models, revealing how trash is ...

A Scottish study finds that shifting heavy meat eaters toward modest cuts, rather than trimming everyone's diet evenly, could ...

Solar energy expansion is often viewed as a threat to US food security. And yet roughly 12 million hectares of US farmland—an area the size of New York State—is currently devoted to corn crops that ...

Within the soil, a group of unique microbes are working overtime to shield wild plants from salt stress. Now researchers have shown that those naturally-occurring microbes can be successfully ...

Technological advances have brought higher crop yields and with that, saved over 16 million hectares of wild habitat worldwide. Thanks to this swathe of protected land, thousands of species of animals ...

People have tried all kinds of strategies stem the trade in illegal animal parts. Often these involved high-profile crackdowns, such as arresting smuggler or torching piles of contraband elephant ...