A Cornell University-led team has calculated that by the year 2050, vehicle electrification, driverless cars and ride sharing could slash...
Children exposed to elevated levels of air pollution may be more likely to have poor inhibitory control during late childhood...
Coral reefs are a favorite spot for scuba divers and are among the world’s most diverse ecosystems. For example, the...
Two factors that play a key role in climate change—increased climate warming and elevated ozone levels—appear to have detrimental effects...
Around 269 million people worldwide use drugs each year. Often forgotten in this story is a problem of basic biology....
A new paper from a lead author based at the University of Kansas finds wetlands constructed along waterways are the...
Plastics are a growing problem for natural ecosystems around the globe, and in particular for our marine and freshwater environments....
Microbes fished from the stomachs of cows can gobble up certain kinds of plastic, including the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) used...
A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Ulm University, and Heidelberg University has now investigated how hydrogen can be produced at...
People lived without plastic until the last century or so, but most of us would find it hard to imagine...
Crude oil production and natural gas withdrawals in the United States have lessened the country’s dependence on foreign oil and...
Our traditional idea of a river, an endlessly flowing stream of water, needs a rethink, scientists argue in a new...
