Experiments with identical replicas of Thomas Edison's original light bulbs shows the inventor may have accidentally created ...

In communities already suffering most from the harms of the fossil fuel industry — adverse health impacts and shortened lifespans, ravaged ecosystems and the empty promises of economic prosperity — ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands ...

Earth’s top 2 meters (6 feet) of soil hold 2.5 trillion metric tons of carbon — more than is held in living vegetation and the atmosphere combined. But soil carbon sinks are under threat — global ...

Long-term data from real forests indicate leaf stomata constrain gains: carbon uptake is traded for water, keeping biomass and storage uneven.

Forests planted with many different tree species have substantially higher aboveground carbon stocks and greater carbon fluxes than monocultures, shows a study. For the study, researchers analyzed ...