A sweeping analysis of nearly a thousand recent scientific papers has revealed that circular-economy research is undergoing a dramatic transformation—from...

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In the tropical farmlands of northwestern Mexico, the soil is revealing a chemical history that refuses to stay buried. A...

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A new study has uncovered a surprising climate connection linking sea ice in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska and...

Mount Everest’s Khumbu Glacier is being warmed by forces far larger than anything happening at the mountain’s crowded base camp....

For decades, meteorologists have watched a vast pulse of thunderstorms circle the tropics, growing over the Indian Ocean, crossing Indonesia...

China’s environmental policies are not producing the same climate and air-quality results everywhere—and a new analysis suggests that treating the...

The world’s data centers are becoming giant furnaces—and researchers now propose using that heat to make more cooling. A study...

The next generation of recycled plastic may not come from sorting everything more aggressively—or from adding more chemicals to every...