Office buildings are typically not energy efficient, and globally they contribute to nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions from construction to end of life.

The tropical oceans are home to the most diverse plankton populations on Earth, where they form the base of marine food chains. 

New electrical method triggers and analyzes dynamics of brain protein that underlie many neurodegenerative diseases.

A University of Queensland-led study has found that as well as ground vibrations, snakes can hear and react to airborne sound.

The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by different processes under its floating ice shelf than researchers previously understood.

When NOAA released its 2020 numbers for atmospheric methane, many scientists were surprised.

Seabed mining could soon begin in the deep ocean – but the potential impact on animals including whales is unknown, researchers have warned.

We are all exposed to ionising radiation over our lifetime.

About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost – permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand – bound together by ice.

The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study.