Phillip Meintzer was hours away by car from the largest fires raging in the forests of British Columbia and Alberta...
by Dr Soheil Sabri, Professor Stephan Winter and Professor Abbas Rajabifard, University of Melbourne Natural disasters like floods and heat...
Bacardi rum bottles, Skittles sweet wrappers, designer water bottles—a bevy of companies are developing biodegradable plastic packaging they say is...
Research led by the University of Oxford could address the current supply crisis of helium, a vital societal resource. The...
A first count of trees in Africa’s drylands has enabled scientists to calculate how much carbon they store and could...
Wastewater can provide clues about a community’s infectious disease status, and even its prescription and illicit drug use. But looking...
In the last decade, growing numbers of researchers have studied plastic pollution, one of the world’s most pressing environmental hazards....
Salt deserts are among the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet and their bizarre and other-worldly polygon-shaped structures...
Municipal wastewater treatment plants emit nearly double the amount of methane into the atmosphere than scientists previously believed, according to...
Not all pollution comes from people. When global temperatures increase by 4°C, harmful plant emissions and dust will also increase...
Early in the formation of Earth, an ocean of magma covered the planet’s surface and stretched thousands of miles deep...
Getting hit with one hurricane is bad enough, but new research from Princeton University’s engineering school shows that back-to-back versions...
