In the delicate balancing act between human development and protecting the fragile natural world, sand is weighing down the scales on the human side.

An improvement in freshwater biodiversity in England’s rivers was linked to reductions in pollution of zinc and copper, largely due to the decline of coal burning and heavy industry, say researchers.

Humanity can farm more food from the seas to help feed the planet while shrinking mariculture’s negative impacts on biodiversity, according to new research led by the University of Michigan.

Treatment plants use a combination of tools to keep toxins and contaminants out of drinking water.

Dark algae are spreading across the Greenland ice sheet as snow retreats.

It’s 1999, the 21st century is on the horizon, and California has big plans for marine conservation.

A new strain of kelp can help support sustainable farming.

On February 6, 2025, after years of preparation and four months of intense planning, an aircraft with an advanced NASA instrument took off for the AVUELO campaign’s first survey in the tropics, while teams on the ground spread out to collect ground-truth data. 

The rapid melting and thinning of the Arctic ice have sparked serious concerns in the scientific community.

Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia’s carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the region’s land-use carbon emissions, according to a new international study published in Nature Communications.