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.

New international research has found a worrying change in the Indian Ocean’s surface temperatures that puts southeast Australia on course for increasingly hot and dry conditions.

Some species of fish, notably parrotfish and wrasses living on coral reefs, change their biological sex as they age, beginning life as females and later becoming functionally male.

Plastics are a victim of their own success, so inexpensive, easy to use and versatile that the world is awash in plastic waste.