After sorting through 1 million material samples, an AI tool has found 19 ideal materials to reduce concrete’s emissions and ...

A tablespoon of clay has about the same surface area as a football field; With a little tweaking, it can soak up as much CO2 ...

The beaks of Anna's hummingbirds in California grew longer as people started hanging artificial feeders, according to new ...

Poor cows. They get smeared with blame for causing an unseemly amount of climate-warming methane emissions. The waste they create is a growing pollution problem too. Farms produce more manure than ...

Boosting iron intake to fight weakness and increase energy is not just for humans, new research shows. A team of scientists and engineers have found that injecting iron and other minerals into wood ...

Greenhouse gas emissions from computers, phones, and data centers could grow from about 1 percent of global emissions in 2007 to over 14 percent in 2040. The carbon footprint of smartphones will ...

Protecting fish biodiversity is a win-win solution for human nutrition and sustainable fisheries, finds a new study. The research, published in Nature Sustainability, unearthed some interesting ...

Over 14 million tons of plastic litter ends up in the ocean every year, killing thousands of animals and birds that ingest it. Much of it ends up amassing in giant garbage patches and over time ...

Biochar enriches farm soils and can lock away tons of carbon each year. Now among these environmental attributes, researchers have found another beneficial use for this material: it could help sift ...

Solar energy expansion is often viewed as a threat to US food security. And yet roughly 12 million hectares of US farmland—an area the size of New York State—is currently devoted to corn crops that ...