The world’s first rapid testing facility for tidal turbine blades, which researchers say can speed up development of marine energy technologies while helping to reduce costs, has opened for business.

Eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths each year and provide more than $600 billion in benefits each year from avoided illness and death, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers.

Plane-mounted laser imaging has allowed scientists to map the size, shape, and density of trees in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, revealing how low- and moderate-intensity burns make forests more resilient to larger blazes.

A new map shows the height of Earth’s forests, from stubby saplings to timbers towering more than 50 meters tall, across the entire land surface.

Although vegetation is not the only type of debris caused by a hurricane, it is an important predictor of where roads will be blocked.

Water often falls from the sky and is stored in mountains across the U.S. as snow before it melts and flows down to urban and rural communities.

The massive Jan. 15, 2022, eruption of the Hunga submarine volcano in the South Pacific Ocean created a variety of atmospheric wave types, including booms heard 6,200 miles away in Alaska.

Planting a tree seems like a generally good thing to do for the environment.

Currently, treatment systems let, on average, half of the emerging contaminants found in wastewater go through. 

Researchers from Japan pave the way for a clean energy economy with low-cost, cadmium-free, thin-film solar cells.