Environment News

For insight into what can happen when the Earth's carbon cycle is altered -- a cause and consequence of climate change -- scientists can look to an event that occurred some 720 million years ago

An important step towards this elusive goal has been taken by a team of researchers. Discovered is an inexpensive metal catalyst that can effectively generate hydrogen gas from water

Asteroids may not be the dark, dry, lifeless chunks of rock scientists have long thought

They paved paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort

A rare and dangerous fungal infection named Cryptococcus gattii has been quietly spreading from British Columbia southward to the U.S. Pacific Northwest. And it's changing as it goes

Researchers at McGill University are unlocking the mysteries of the little-known habits of dinosaurs in discovering that the entire western interior of North America was likely once populated by a single community of dinosaurs

Bees see the world almost five times faster than humans, according to new research from scientists at Queen Mary, University of London

A 3,000-year record from 52 of the world's oldest trees shows that California's western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to new research

In an electrifying first, Stanford scientists have plugged in to algae cells and harnessed a tiny electric current

A link between low solar activity and jet streams over the Atlantic could explain why, despite global warming trends, people in regions North East of the Atlantic Ocean might need to brace themselves for more frequent cold winters in years to come