More than half of the world’s population faces a looming threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water because climate change and urbanisation are expected to cause an increase in groundwater organic carbon, a new UNSW study has found.

Efforts to create synthetic replacements for palm oil are still likely to take several years, so immediate attention should be focused on making the existing production process more sustainable, researchers at the University of Bath’s Centre for Integrated Bioprocessing Research (CIBR) and Centre for Sustainable Circular Technologies (CSCT) have found.

The natural coastal defenses provided by mangrove forests reduce annual flooding significantly in critical hotspots around the world. 

For plants, sunlight can be a double-edged sword. 

Wearing clothes can release even greater quantities of microfibres to the environment than washing them, new research shows.

A new policy report, Electronic Registration Systems for Cooling Towers – Improving Public Health and Sustainability Outcomes, published by the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) proposes a standardized yet flexible template for cooling tower registries that are designed to improve health outcomes, address disparity in affected populations, and increase water and energy efficiency.

Awareness of climate change and its impacts is not enough to move people to action.

A breakthrough into splitting water into its parts could help make renewable energy pay off, even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.

Colour-changing crabs struggle to camouflage themselves when exposed to noise from ships, new research shows.

One week is all it takes for a piece of plastic floating in the ocean to begin to smell like turtle food.