A team of early-career researchers from the University of Cambridge are working with the county council to identify the best ways for Cambridgeshire to reach net zero emissions.

Ammonia, the key ingredient of fertiliser, can be burned in ships’ engines in place of polluting diesel.

MIT engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an incoming asteroid.

Taxes on sugary drinks are potentially effective tools to fight the obesity epidemic and advocates are drawing lessons from the long battle against tobacco as they plot what they know will be a tough road ahead.

Thanks to climate change, "the East Coast could start looking like the West Coast from a water standpoint. That's going to be a real challenge."

Photojournalism revealed the adulterated products and other horrors of the Chicago meatpacking industry, sparking both the novel "The Jungle" and real change.

Hear how women organized to help make the Montgomery bus boycott a reality, and why they're work is sometimes forgotten.

The French Adrian military helmet from WWI outdid modern helmets in shock wave tests—a surprising result that could improve today's military equipment.

Financial markets aren't taking into account the effects extreme weather and climate change could have on the future of the economy, a researcher warns.

The deadliness of the virus advances progressively with the age of the patient, research suggests.