Michigan is planning to build the first public road in the United States where electric vehicles can charge wirelessly while driving, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday at the Motor Bella auto show in Pontiac.

he use of large herbivores can be an effective means to prevent and mitigate wildfires, especially in places facing land abandonment.

Ecosystems provide multiple services for humans. However, these services depend on basic ecosystem functions which are shaped by natural conditions like climate and species composition, and human interventions.

Plastic pollution clogs river systems for considerably longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Leicester shows.

Northwestern University engineers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight.

Researchers have demonstrated how a detailed ‘cradle to grave’ evaluation at the outset of new metal mining explorations can greatly mitigate against negative environmental impacts.

Reactive nitrogen emissions contribute to greenhouse gases, as well as air and water pollution.

NASA scientists are in Houston this month for an intensive air quality study exploring the effects of emissions and weather on air pollution, as well as the relationship between air quality and socioeconomic factors.

Like mountain glaciers worldwide, the glaciers of the Italian Alps are steadily melting away. 

Coral reefs are among the most biologically diverse, complex and productive ecosystems on the planet. Most of coral reef biodiversity consists of tiny organisms living deep within the three-dimensional reef matrix.