Chemists have been working to synthesize high-value materials from waste molecules for years. Now, an international collaboration of scientists is exploring ways to use electricity to streamline the process.

Solar farms in the UK could bring benefits for nature as well as provide low carbon energy - but unless policies change, potential benefits for nature could be squandered, scientists argue.

Heavy rain and flooding in Brazil in November could tell forecasters whether December, January and February in Britain will be cold and dry or mild and wet.   

A study co-led by researchers at Rowan University in the US, NTU Singapore and the University of Pennsylvania, US, reveals that tropical cyclones in Southeast Asia are now forming closer to coastlines, intensifying more rapidly, and lingering longer over land.

From coastal redwoods and Joshua trees to golden poppies and sagebrush, California is a global botanical hotspot.

Researchers have identified an entirely new type of wood that does not fit into either category of hardwood or softwood.

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have detected geochemical signatures of magma pooling and melting beneath the subsurface during the “Fagradalsfjall Fires”, that began on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula in 2021.

Clues to future sea level rise have been revealed by the first detailed maps of the underside of a floating ice shelf in Antarctica.

A recent Supreme Court decision to block a federal rule curbing interstate air pollution further complicates efforts to reduce emissions and adds to an already disproportionate burden on “downwind” states, according to researchers at the University of Notre Dame.

Scientists have discovered that ponderosa pines effectively stop breathing when beset by wildfire smoke.