Environment
Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough
On Tuesday Governor Jerry Brown signed the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic from grocery and convenience stores in an effort to take action against pollution in streets and waterways.
A new study shows that the Arctic Ocean has become more acidic as Industry has risen.
If you live in Florida, you're probably used to getting strange news, so here's a message from your state government: should probably keep an eye out for large, black and white, baby crocodile-resembling reptiles in your neighborhood. The state has found 33 of them in a neighborhood in Florida and are looking to round up the exotic animal.
a new study shows that the smallmouth bass population in the region has shrunken considerably, and could spell bad news for other fish as well.
An Iraqi immigrant returned to his birth country in 2003 and has since accomplished an incredible environmental feat: He has helped restore half of Iraq's devastated marshlands.
A new study based on three models of Arctic ice prediction show that the Arctic could lose much of it's summer ice by 2050 or sooner.
Get ready for another piece of Arctic-related climate change news: scientists are now stating that more trees and greenery will popping up in the Arctic due to rising temperatures, further exacerbating global warming.
Thousands upon thousands of prawn have washed up dead on the shores of Coronel, Chile, as scientists try to piece together what would cause such a widespread deaths of marine life.
It looks like our psychiatric drugs may have an effect on more than just people. A new study shows that the trace amounts of a common anti-anxiety drug that end up in rivers could be altering the behaviors of unsuspecting fish.
Elizabeth R. Ellwood from Boston University and her fellow authors tapped into research from the notebooks of Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold to determine that many species of flowers in the United States are blooming earlier due to rising temperatures.
While climate change is more commonly associated with carbon dioxide, a new study indicates that black carbon is more potent than previously thought - potent enough to be the second leading cause of global warming.
It looks like the United States is in for a hot future.
A new environmental initiative by Starbucks could keep millions of paper cups out of landfills.
In a bid to cut carbon dioxide emissions in half by 2025, the Obama administration has introduced regulations that will require new fleets of cars and trucks to average 54.5 miles per gallon fuel economy over the next thirteen years.
