Wheat straw and rice husks already appear in niche construction products. A new study explores the global climate effects if ...

Stub, toss, out of sight. Cigarette butts are things people don’t give a second thought, but they are the most common plastic ...

Against the backdrop of Arctic warming, polar bears in Norway’s far north are gaining fat and feeding on new prey—a testament ...

A new global life-cycle analysis finds that if not properly disposed of, biodegradable plastics could increase methane ...

By removing meat subsidies or taxing carbon across all foods, researchers uncovered how small changes in price could unlock ...

Three-in-one strategy uses only carbon dioxide and water to recover 95% of lithium and reuses leftover metals, capturing CO2 ...

Rising gas prices prevented the development of 4.19 million acres of forest and agricultural land in the U.S. between 2000 and 2015, according to a new study. The findings enhance understanding of the ...

In a world starved of energy but brimming with people and the waste they produce, putting the waste to good use seems sensible. Take wastewater: the organic materials present in wastewater can be ...

Researchers have made a fascinating discovery that the place rainfall derives from—the land or the sea—has huge bearing on how well crops will grow. Rain arising from the ocean, they found, is more ...

A massive global study finds cities can deliver millions of new homes without exhausting the world’s carbon budget—if they abandon carbon-intensive construction norms.

Last July, zoo officials in Nuremberg, Germany took the unusual step of killing a dozen healthy, captive baboons. The move, aimed at dealing with overcrowding, sparked protests and worldwide headlines ...