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

Hydrogen can be produced via the electrolytic splitting of water. 

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.

North Sea oil and gas extraction can cause pollution to spike by more than 10,000% within half a kilometre around off-shore sites.

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.

Field biologists tend to be a patient lot, often resigned to long days and weeks in the field and committed to experiments that take years to yield results.

Oregon State University researchers have made the first scientific confirmation in Puget Sound of two distinct shark species, one of them critically endangered.