In one of the most ambitious environmental restoration efforts in Southeast Asia, the Philippine government has finalized a sweeping master...

For decades, the story seemed simple: when farmers walk away from their fields, nature reclaims the land, vegetation returns, and...

In a finding that underscores how little we still know about the vulnerabilities of the world's most threatened vertebrate class,...

The charming gas streetlights that glow along the sidewalks of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in historic districts from Berlin to London...

On the vast high-altitude expanse of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, often called the Third Pole, vegetation has long been regarded as...

The groundwater beneath the Shivalik foothills of Himachal Pradesh has quietly been absorbing the cost of India's rapid industrial and...

Scientists have long dreamed of pulling carbon dioxide straight out of the atmosphere and turning it into something useful, and...

In the sweltering, permanently air-conditioned city-state of Singapore, scientists have completed one of the most ambitious real-world tests yet of...

In the world of aquatic toxicology, the water flea Daphnia magna is something of a laboratory legend. For decades, this...

Every year, rivers swollen by rain and snowmelt spill over their banks and wash across the vegetated strips of land...