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Forest-based agroforestry can restore forests, promote livelihoods, and combat climate change, but emerging agroforestry initiatives focusing only on tree planting is leading to missed opportunities…

A new study reveals how climate change has altered growing conditions for the world’s five major crops over the past half century and is reshaping…

The disappearance of sea ice in polar regions due to global warming not only increases the amount of light entering the ocean, but also changes…

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from industry can be reduced by five per cent. But that requires companies and policy makers to take a holistic…

Up to 250,000 deaths from poor air quality could be prevented annually in central and western Europe by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions are drastically…

Current methods of capturing and releasing carbon are expensive and so energy-intensive they often require, counterproductively, the use of fossil fuels. Taking inspiration from plants,…

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawai’i finally connected the dots between one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s…

A more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to extracting rare earth elements that power everything from electric vehicle batteries to smartphones could increase domestic supply…

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits…

Seismology has revealed much of the basics about earthquakes: Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the…

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of…

Could the seismic signal of an underground nuclear test explosion be “hidden” by the signal generated by a natural earthquake? It’s possible, according to a…