Faced with population growth, environmental change, and increasing concerns over food security and sustainability – the interest in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is on an upward trend.

The observation that ‘the fishing’s not what it used to be’ ranks up there with ‘the one that got away’ as a story that has crossed over from folk wisdom to folklore.

Renewable energy that feeds into the main power grid could destabilise the system and potentially cause power failures according to a new study.

Two new studies – a survey of residents in hurricane-battered Florida and Texas and a survey of people in wildfire-scarred California – reveal that negative personal experiences are among key variables in pushing people to take or accept protective measures like flood insurance and planned power shut offs.

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, have previously shown that biological catalysts, or enzymes, can produce fuels cleanly using renewable energy sources, but at low efficiency.

In the mid-1990s, a few energy activists in Massachusetts had a vision: What if citizens had choice about the energy they consumed?

Three in four people around the world agree with a ban on single-use plastics such as bags, straws, and water bottles, according to a 28-country survey from marketing firm Ipsos and Plastic Free July, an anti-plastics campaign.

The site of the last coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts will become home to the state’s first offshore wind manufacturing facility, Governor Charlie Baker announced Thursday.

Europe’s Mediterranean countries produce a significant portion of the world’s wines, olives, nuts and tomatoes.

Some plants and patches of Earth withstand heat and dry spells better than others. A new Stanford University study shows those different coping mechanisms are closely linked to wildfire burn areas, posing increasing risks in an era of climate change.