An island with an unusual shape has been growing in shallow coastal waters near China’s Hainan Island.

The findings were just published in The Royal Society Interface Focus journal as part of a special issue on carbon dioxide removal.

Researchers at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) have genetically engineered a fungus to produce a cocktail of enzymes that break down the carbohydrates in biomass, such as sugarcane trash (tops and leaves) and bagasse, into fermentable sugar for industrially efficient conversion into biofuel.

Emerging technologies can be harnessed to use the strengths of hot, humid coastal deserts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to grow food and other crops.

Fruit, grain, and nut farms curve around the western Taurus Mountains in the Antalya province.

By zeroing in on different high-latitude regions around the globe, researchers reveal what global averages mask.

The failure of the summer monsoon and other moisture carrying systems has parched more than 90 percent of some states.

More than half of the world's aboveground carbon is stored in tropical forests, the degradation of which poses a direct threat to global climate regulation.

A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist William Riley on the challenges in estimating methane emissions from wetlands and how nuanced computer models may help.

Research conducted by scientists in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences focused on finding the source of bitter rot disease in fruit.