When the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) set out to tag razorbills, their aim was to track their behaviour and movements along the coast of North Wales. 

New research on wind behavior in complex terrain, led by NOAA and the U.S. Department of Energy, will improve forecasts for wind energy firms by 15-25 percent, and improve wind forecasts for the entire country, scientists said.

NOAA Fishery Survey Vessel Reuben Lasker and a small fleet of unmanned, instrumented saildrones wrapped up nearly 5 months of research this week after crisscrossing waters off the West Coast in a landmark survey of species ranging from krill and anchovies to whales.

MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. 

The complex network of interdependencies between plants and animals multiplies the species at risk of extinction due to environmental change, according to a JRC study.

The nutritional qualities of shellfish could be significantly reduced by future ocean acidification and warming, a new study suggests.

When you think of China, do you think of potatoes? Maybe not, but in the Loess Plateau region of northwestern China, potato is the main food crop.

Researchers at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus are aiming to improve the efficiency of light electric vehicles (LEV) by developing next-generation ‘passive’ cooling solutions for the vehicles’ battery chargers. 

UVic geography professor Johan Feddema’s life-long academic interest in the interactions between human activity and the earth’s surface and climate didn’t start in a lab but in a graveyard.

The solution to a 75-year-old materials mystery might one day allow farmers in developing nations to produce their own fertilizer on demand, using sunlight and nitrogen from the air.