Researchers are considering ways to use synthetic biology for such conservation goals as eradicating invasive species or strengthening endangered coral.

Vast quantities of methane hydrates — frozen deposits of natural gas found on the sea floor — exist worldwide.

As the Trump administration keeps moving aggressively to roll back environmental protections, it has a potent legal weapon — the scores of federal judges that President Trump will be appointing, most of whom are expected to hold anti-regulatory, pro-business views.

In the prevailing narrative of the rooftop solar industry, the dominant theme is combat.

The rapid growth of digital data has been a boon to researchers and conservationists.

A century or two from now, people may look back at our current era — with its record-breaking high temperatures year after year, rapid disappearance of Arctic sea ice, and gradually rising sea levels — as part of a much cooler and far more desirable past.

Britain is phasing out its coal-burning power plants, with the last one slated to be shuttered by 2025, if not sooner.

The increase in forest fires, seen this summer from North America to the Mediterranean to Siberia, is directly linked to climate change, scientists say.

In a development that has important implications for conservation, scientists are increasingly focusing not just on what species are present in an ecosystem ....

Major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa.