Western Australian businesses can now make better informed decisions about reducing food waste and turning discarded materials into valuable products, thanks to a new online toolkit.

Dialing up the power on electricity-driven chemical reactions doesn’t guarantee that they’ll be more efficient, suggests a new study, a finding that gets researchers closer to creating the ideal conditions for sustainable chemical manufacturing.

The Southern Ocean may seem far removed from the North Pacific or the Gulf of Maine, but its waters are linked to all the world's major ocean basins through a vast circulation system.

Climate observers have long tied the strength of a major ocean current to water temperatures in the so-called “cold blob” in the North Atlantic Ocean.

A new study finds that tropical areas often thought to be safe from the effects of climate change are actually experiencing significant changes in rainfall and extreme temperature events.

About 20,000 years ago, an enormous, floating ice shelf more than a mile thick helped lock in three of the largest ice sheets in northern Canada and Greenland.

The method is 140 years old, and it is time to modernize in order to reduce climate emissions.

Cornell researchers, working with upstate New York battery company Charge CCCV, also known as C4V, have developed a real-time diagnostic approach to drastically improve one of the most expensive and time-consuming stages of lithium-ion battery manufacturing: forming the battery.

Farming, dams and agricultural runoff are the biggest threats to freshwater biodiversity globally, with Europe and Northwest Africa the hardest-hit regions, McGill researchers have found.

Chocolate lovers may not realize it, but the future of one of the world's most popular foods is increasingly under pressure.