A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered the specific gene that controls an important symbiotic relationship between plants and soil fungi, and successfully facilitated the symbiosis in a plant that typically resists it.

Atmospheric methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that also contributes to ground-level ozone pollution.

New research has discovered that cigarette butts – the most common form of litter on the planet – significantly reduce plant growth.

The unrelenting deforestation of the Amazon region could lead to a dramatic increase to the risk of destructive wildfire outbreaks, research has shown.

They look like smears of pink bubblegum on the rocks off British Columbia’s coast, indistinguishable from one another.

The towering, hundreds of years old Sitka spruce trees growing in the heart of Vancouver Island’s Carmanah Valley appear placid and unchanging.

The ocean plays an essential role in absorbing large quantities of excess carbon dioxide released by human activities.

A new online mapping tool highlighting the 50 most influential fossil fuel industry players in Western Canada was launched today to help shed light on who’s who in the oil resource sector.

The culprit responsible for the decline of Mexico’s once lucrative jumbo squid fishery has remained a mystery, until now.

Scientists have confirmed that viruses can kill marine algae called diatoms and that diatom die-offs near the ocean surface may provide nutrients and organic matter for recycling by other algae, according to a Rutgers-led study.