The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high environmental, climate and economic costs.

Air pollution may be harming children’s eyesight with cleaner air helping to protect and even improve their vision - especially in younger children, a new study reveals.

You can’t see nanoplastics with the naked eye, but they’re everywhere — including your body.

Researchers have revealed a clear relationship between stress and increased disease risk in koalas in South East Queensland and on the New South Wales North Coast.

Plastic pollution represents a global environmental challenge, and once in the environment plastic can fragment into smaller and smaller pieces.

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to a new research by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

As the frequency and intensity of heatwaves increase across the U.S., a similar but more striking phenomenon is occurring in American rivers.

Increasing tree species diversity is widely suggested as a way to help forests withstand climate change – especially prolonged droughts.

Sea surface height data from the Sentinel-6B satellite, led by NASA and ESA, will help with the development of marine weather forecasts, alerting ships to possible dangers.

'Refining methods for attributing health impacts to climate change: a heat-mortality case study in Zürich' shows that climate change is not only increasing deaths during extreme heatwaves, but also on milder days when temperatures exceed local thresholds for human health.