Melatonin, a sleep aid for humans, is known to keep fruits and vegetables fresh longer. Now scientists have come up with a ...

A new study in Panama found that entrusting forests to Indigenous inhabitants may be a more effective conservation strategy ...

Getting people to think more about the future, especially their own and that of people they care about, is the most effective way to motivate climate action, according to a new study. The findings ...

Engineers have created steel-like wood by infusing it with iron, offering a climate-friendly alternative to concrete and ...

A new study suggests that the growing market for digital clothing could have some surprising consumer dynamics ...

Until a few years ago, anthropomorphism—attributing human mental characteristics to other animals—was synonymous with unscientifically sentimental. Nowadays, thanks to squee-rich social media and ...

Farmed at scale, seagrass meadows could produce grain in quantities equivalent to 7% of global rice production, a new study finds.

Last Friday, an estimated 4 million people around the world took part in a global climate strike, organized and led by teenagers and young adults who say that the lack of action on climate change has ...

Known as crustose coralline algae or red algae, these species coat rocks much like lichen on an alpine cliff. They emit a ...