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.
Pollutants banned from use and imprisoned in the Arctic ice are finding freedom again as the ice melts.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enforce national water quality standards, giving upstream states greater authority over rivers than downstream states.
Airborne dust has so many different influences on basic Earth processes large and small that no single science has a clear understanding of it.
Using sustainably harvested wood instead of steel helps reduce carbon pollution and store carbon at the same time.
Coal use in China ramped up short-lived atmospheric sulfur that dimmed the effects of greenhouse warming during the mid-2000s
The year-long process may provide an alternative bioremediation treatment for removing oil.
Climate change could halve California and Washington wine regions by 2040, but give Oregon vineyards a boost.
A design for a New York City pool proposes that it float on the Hudson River and filter water through its sides.
