A new study tackles the fraught question and upends tidy narratives with a subtler reality: more equal countries tend to be ...

New protocols could cut emissions associated with surgical anesthesia in half—with no adverse effects on patient outcomes ...

Climate change, perhaps, used to be a topic where reasoned discussion was possible, particularly if people were lacking basic ...

The molecular reactions of nylon with the battery materials reduces unwanted chemical reactions, prevents dendrites and ...

By firing rock dust in standard cement kilns, they altered the mineral's chemistry so that it quickly react with carbon ...

Astronauts swabbed more than 800 spots on the International Space Station; their samples contained just 6% of the spectrum of ...

Wrapped around a car's tailpipe, the device could harness waste heat to produce enough electricity to at least charge a phone ...

Instead of costly and risky strategies for carbon storage, researchers wondered just how much storage potential the built environment could provide. Their answer is impressive. In the first ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. People are planting lots of trees in the hopes it will help slow climate change. It turns out this will work better if they don’t plant the same tree all the ...

New research suggests the answer is yes. Logging rates are dramatically lower where governments in Sub-Saharan Africa partner with NGOs to run protected areas.