To manage plastic wastes, nations first need to know what they have and where it's coming from. A case study from Trinidad…
Like many plants, onions have defenses to ward off creatures that may want to eat them. Their secret weapon is a kind of…
Puerto Rico's January earthquakes came after many foreshocks and have been followed by numerous aftershocks. Scientists…
For decades nations have worked to curb international sales of endangered plants and animals. But in countries like China,…
Do public lands in the West belong to Westerners, or all Americans? Moving a federal agency's headquarters from Washington,…
Coyotes, whose range is expanding, are now at the doorstep of South America.
A report calls for banning the use of emotion recognition technology. An AI and computer vision researcher explains the…
The EPA is considering a rule that would limit what kinds of science regulators can use in setting rules. A scholar explains…
What does it mean to call a nonfood product like lipstick organic? Federal regulators allow such claims, but have set few…
Cities and states are considering limits on single-family zoning, which experts say promotes sprawl and separation. But…
New research shows that slowing deforestation is the most essential step for saving Madagascar's lemurs, and can help…
About 24,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest have been deforested over the last decade.
2019 was a big year for dire warmings about the state of the planet, but crises can spur solutions.
Sand may seem abundant when your toes are buried in it, but it's becoming scarce along many coastlines around the world.
Activists wanted nations to make bigger climate commitments at the Madrid COP-25 meeting, but the meeting's real goal…
Countries are not on track to meet Paris Agreement goals. A climate researcher argues that a range of technologies that…
How did whales that feed on tiny prey evolve into the largest creatures on Earth? And why don't they get even bigger?
Love it or hate it, winter means snow and ice for much of the US. In many places, though, snow is becoming a scarce resource.
Due to inefficiencies in global energy systems, energy falls short of even making it to the consumer, often lost in the…
A manufacturing engineer describes the concept for a technology that could lead to more efficient production – and perhaps…