UBC researchers have developed an inexpensive, non-toxic coating for almost any fabric that decreases the infectivity of the virus that causes COVID-19 by up to 90 per cent.

Nitrogen fertilizers are critical for growing crops to feed the world, yet when applied in excess can pollute our water for decades. 

The site of the last coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts will become home to the state’s first offshore wind manufacturing facility, Governor Charlie Baker announced Thursday.

This may sound counterintuitive, but reducing the number of animals in a population can help the remaining individuals to survive through the winter.

Wildfires are burning more severely and more often, urban noise pollution is growing into a global public health menace, and phenological mismatches – disruptions in the timing of life-cycle stages in natural systems – are causing ecological consequences. 

Climate experts and engineers have created a new model to predict the damage caused by adverse weather. 

A drop in the total number of rainy days each year is contributing to an earlier arrival of spring for plants in northern climates, a new study finds.

The United States is expected to experience as much sea level rise by the year 2050 as it witnessed in the previous hundred years. 

Measurements of London’s atmosphere show the city is releasing more of the potent greenhouse gas methane, primarily from natural gas leaks.

Central Amazonia’s tall trees are impacted by periods of high maximum temperatures and then shed their leaves and branches.