environment

Study finds that carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle, with devastating consequences.

A new study lays out a green (very green), data-driven plan to capture much of our atmosphere’s carbon pool.

Study shows minerals sequester carbon for thousands of years, which may explain oxygen’s abundance in the atmosphere.

Here are just two of the practical and philosophical crises surrounding biodiversity breakdown.

In April, the U.S. generated more electricity from renewables — hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass — than coal.

The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are remnants of the ice age. They’re also the wild cards of climate science.

There are clues to the future and past trapped in Greenland’s ice.

Normally, the landscape in this photo would be a white ice sheet.

It’s a “canary in the coalmine,” said one climate scientist.

Beyond Beef sizzles and marbleizes just like real beef, Beyond Meat says.

Spending between 120–300 minutes per week in nature shown to increase wellbeing.

Can dirt help us fight off stress? Groundbreaking new research shows how.

Are we witnessing evolution in real time?

Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.

It’s a big, bold plan.

When it comes to leadership, we’re quite picky on who we let govern us.

Techno-fixes will not get us where we need to be to stop the effects of climate change.

It makes no “makes no economic or energy sense.”

Step one, start the discussion.

Cornell University researchers propose using biology to transform the storage of sustainable energy.

Where would you go if you could go anywhere?

Hearing-related problems are on the rise.

All life as we know it relies on carbon and water. But researchers speculate this doesn’t have to be the case.

Alternative meats are finally hitting the mainstream.

One often-neglected result of climate change is ocean acidification. If this process continues, we may start to see fewer fish and more jellyfish.

“Earth” features about 30 of the biggest names in entertainment.

That’s the strategy behind a program being tested in one Indiana school district.

Beefless meat enters the mainstream.

Can sensitive coral reefs survive another human generation?