When something is free, people use a lot of it. Economists are urging governments to compute values for natural resources – wildlife, plants, air, water – to create motives for protecting them.

Reducing methane emissions needs to play a much more important role in tackling global warming.

As societies face the triple challenge of avoiding the worst effects of climate change, protecting remaining biodiversity and improving human wellbeing, there

A "natural experiment" on the New York-Pennsylvania border links hydraulic fracking to an increased risk of heart attack, hospitalization, and death.

Drilling instead of tilling the soil to plant seeds could help the ground store more carbon.

Data confirms what many suspected - that nature and green spaces have provided solace during lockdown.

Fifteen years ago electric power generation was the largest source of US greenhouse gas emissions. Now the power sector is leading the shift to a clean energy economy.

Russia is attempting to claim more of the Arctic seabed – an area rich in oil, gas and minerals – and its fleet of icebreakers is helping shipping expand. The US needs some creative ideas to catch up.

Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.