Environment + Energy

A new study has for the first time comprehensively accounted for permafrost carbon release when estimating emission budgets for climate targets. The results show that the world might be…

Permafrost soils store large quantities of frozen carbon and play an important role in regulating Earth's climate.

Scientists at ANU have engineered tiny carbon-capturing engines from blue-green algae into plants, in a breakthrough that promises to help boost the yields of important food crops such as…

UO researchers have found a way to account for how varying sediments underneath the world's glaciers control how fast glaciers slide.

A study on dramatic changes to Earth's vegetation as it emerged from the last ice age and temperatures rose has offered clues on the kinds of transformations that will occur to landscapes…

The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by altering the photosynthetic machinery in…

The world is on fire. Or so it appears in this image from NASA's Worldview. The red points overlaid on the image designate those areas that by using thermal bands detect actively burning…

There are a couple of key features that make a turtle a turtle: its shell, for one, but also its toothless beak.

Flushing the lenses down the sink or toilet could be contributing to microplastic pollution in waterways.

A major new study involving researchers from the University of York has measured a global shift towards more sustainable agricultural systems that provide environmental improvements at the…