Climate

Researchers propose a material-flow framework that stress-tests circular-economy policies across broad plausible conditions instead of relying on uncertain probability estimates.

A new electrochemical system could turn one of industry’s most troublesome waste streams into two valuable products: industrial-grade sodium formate...

South America’s climate extremes are being shaped by a powerful atmospheric tug-of-war between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, according to...

Mediterranean olive growers have been handed a counterintuitive climate lesson: a cover crop that sharply reduces runoff in wetter conditions...

As heatwaves become more frequent, longer-lasting and more intense, cities around the world are turning to a deceptively simple tool:...

Pollinator conservation in northern Ghana may depend on a resource that formal environmental programs have routinely overlooked: women’s ecological knowledge....

A hidden chemical story is unfolding beneath the waters of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, where sediments in lakes, rivers and salt...

A new study of carbon-utilizing mineralization technologies in Canada suggests that the next breakthrough in cutting industrial emissions may depend...

Spain’s offshore-wind ambitions may be constrained by an unexpectedly terrestrial problem: not the strength of the wind at sea, but...

Japan’s fruit farms may need to make a radical change to survive climate change: stop growing the fruits they are...