A recent United Nations report found that the world generated 137 billion pounds of electronic waste in 2022, an 82% increase from 2010.

On August 10, 2020 a powerful derecho windstorm blasted the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in Iowa.

Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable.

Sensors that detect plant signaling molecules can reveal when crops are experiencing too much light or heat, or attack from insects or microbes.

Honey bees—plump, fuzzy and famed for their honey-making—capture the popular imagination.

Carbon is a planetary paradox.

Research has uncovered important new insights into the evolution of oxygen, carbon, and other vital elements over the entire history of Earth – and it could help assess which other planets can develop life, ranging from plants to animals and humans.

A University of California, Irvine-led team reveals a clear link between human-driven climate change and the years-long drought currently gripping southern Madagascar.

Manganese in the soil of boreal forests has been found to work against the carbon storage capacity of these crucial northern habitats.

Conditions that usually accompany the kind of intense hot and cold weather that strains power grids may also provide greater opportunities to capture solar and wind energy.