It’s no secret that the United States’ $13 billion cannabis industry is big business. 

Astronomers have discovered new hints of a giant, scorching-hot planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky.

Munich is home to the world's first fully automated sensor network for measuring urban greenhouse gas emissions based on ground-based remote sensing of the atmosphere.

Crop-CASMA uses data from NASA missions to map soil moisture across the United States.

Multinational companies headquartered in countries with tougher environmental policies tend to locate their polluting factories in countries with more lax regulations, a new study finds.

To avoid a substantial increase in water scarcity, biomass plantations for energy production need sustainable water management, a new study shows. 

Satellite imagery shows that the area covered by kelp forests off the coast of Northern California has dropped by more than 95 percent, with just a few small, isolated patches of bull kelp remaining. 

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego examining 14 years of hospital admissions data conclude that the fine particles in wildfire smoke can be several times more harmful to human respiratory health than particulate matter from other sources such as car exhaust. 

If you are going to buy a face mask to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, make sure it’s a three-layered mask. 

A new study published today in Nature Climate Change is the first to analyse global sea-level rise combined with measurements of sinking land.