Research highlights that plastic removal technologies have shown varied efficiency in the amount of waste material they are able to collect.

City lights shine all night amid the bustling traffic, businesses and neighborhoods of Southern California, one of the most populated areas that mountain lions call home.

The rapid adoption of zero-emission electric vehicles will move the nation close to an 80% or more drop in transportation greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 from the 2019 level according to researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Destructive winds that flow out of thunderstorms in the central United States are becoming more widespread with warming temperatures, according to new research by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Re-establishing plantings of trees, grasses and other vegetation is essential for restoring degraded ecosystems, but a new survey of almost 2,600 restoration projects from nearly every type of ecosystem on Earth finds that most projects fail to recognize and control one of the new plants’ chief threats: hungry critters that eat plants.  

The influx of salt in streams and rivers is an ‘existential threat,’ according to a research team led by a UMD geologist.

Just like the land and the ocean, the atmosphere is marred by a variety of pollutants. 

The first widescale assessment of methylmercury in adult amphibians in the U.S. to date shows that, in amphibians, this toxic compound is common, widespread and, at least for some, can reach very high levels.

Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometres away to get warmer, according to a new study.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently presented its second report on the status of global water resources.