An irrigation scheme will divert nutrient-rich, treated effluent water to crops instead of into sensitive waterways after a ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

Packaging is one of the key sustainability dilemmas in food. What different types of packaging have the best sustainability ...

Matthew Ingram shares his views on the revolutionary potential of compost ahead of the publication of his new book, The ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

Human population growth and consumption, energy use, land use changes, and pollution are driving forces of global change. How do these factors impact ecological systems and human societies?

With the first quarter of the 21st century nearly over, we asked some Irish people to share their predictions for life here ...

In 1990, the Clean Air Act was updated by Congress to eliminate acid rain by reducing power plant pollution. Unfortunately, ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

Enhanced weathering of basalt (EW) removes CO2 chemically, and biotically by enhancing ecosystem growth through phosphorus release. This study shows that leveraging the biotic process can triple ...