UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

Rob Wilson stood on his home’s back deck in Flagstaff, in the U.S. state of Arizona, as the wildfire approached. All was ...

The new finding comes from an analysis of pesticide use and prostate cancer incidence in over 3,100 U.S. counties.

McDonald’s USA, one of the largest fast food restaurant chains, Lopez Foods, a multi-protein producer and long-term supplier ...

Fertilizers are the largest source of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas that’s also the most significant destroyer of ...

Learn how a 12-year-old aims to minimize pollution and protect the Earth through small changes and community involvement.

Researchers at MIT are developing innovative agricultural technologies such as stress-signaling plants, microbial fertilizers, and protective seed coatings to adapt farming to climate change and ...

Green burials, where the person is buried in a wicker basket without embalming, can reduce one's ecological footprint after death.

Conventional farming is responsible for a staggering 90% of global deforestation, as more land is cleared to feed the world's growing population. Enter electro-agriculture, a cutting-edge concept that ...

We can thank small farmers, environmentalists, academic researchers, and food and farming activists for advancing ...

So many issues today, whether local, state or national, invariably become polarized almost as soon as they arise. We have a long history of our own contentious local issues, whether Greenway or ...

Bioengineers propose "electro-agriculture," a method that replaces photosynthesis with a solar-powered reaction converting ...