Peatlands are often used as an alternative fuel to wood, but their carbon value is as competitive as forests if not more so, according to scientists studying peatland biogeochemistry.
Scrubbing wastewater of nitrogen is a potential business boon waiting to happen; it would help reduce energy use as well as air and water pollution.
Russia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, endangering infrastructure in the Arctic zone.
Refugees seeking food security from drought and civil-war ravaged Somalia find floods instead.
Wildfires in the tundra of Alaska's North Slope pose a severe feedback threat to a warming climate.
A new study of ocean sediments indicates West Antarctica as well as Greenland must have contributed to oceans that were 15 to 20 feet higher than their current levels.
Pollutants banned from use and imprisoned in the Arctic ice are finding freedom again as the ice melts.
More frequent large fires are predicted for the Rockies and Yellowstone with the potential to push the area over a tipping point.
Pork, farm-raised salmon, chicken and turkey are all on a par when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, but pigs are in a category of their own when it comes to environmental impact.
12 million people are battling hunger and disease as the worst drought for 60 years grips the region.
