State lawmakers approved legislation to start the process of building a coastal barrier to protect the upper Texas coast from hurricanes.

Researchers are using satellite data to locate small mines that can cause long-term damage to forest communities and human health.

The Annual Greenhouse Gas Index is updated each spring after nearly all the air samples collected during the previous year have been obtained and analyzed.

The way in which banks react to climate risks and uncertainty could impact financial stability as well as the world’s transition to a low-carbon economy.

Despite the rapid and significant changes in consumption patterns witnessed during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese households maintained their normal levels of greenhouse gases emissions. The “anthropause” — reduction of human activity due to the pandemic — made headlines last summer, but factory shutdowns and broken global supply chains did not translate into the adoption of eco-friendly lifestyles for the average household.

How Earth observation technologies are revolutionizing global agri-food systems.

New research shows that eco-industrial parks inspired by the architecture of food webs are economically beneficial, resilient and environmentally friendly.

The tool will help people, including resource managers and other officials, to address increasing concentrations of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Nitrogen is an element basic for life — plants need it, animals need it, it’s in our DNA — but when there’s too much nitrogen in the environment, things can go haywire.

A recent study finds that unhealthy eating behaviors at night can make people less helpful and more withdrawn the next day at work.