Google's parent company, Alphabet, has unveiled prototype robots that can inspect individual plants in a field, to help farmers improve crop yields.

As scientists deliver ever-more-serious warnings about climate change, companies are beginning to size up the potential effects not only on their businesses and industries but across the entire global economy.

The COVID-19 crisis has shown how deep inequalities make society as a whole more vulnerable — providing important lessons for building resilience in an era of climate change.

This summer's Arctic sea-ice shrank to its second lowest ever extent in the era of satellite observation.

Early this month, McDonald’s made headlines when it teamed with Cargill, Target and The Nature Conservancy to put $8.5 million toward helping Nebraska farmers cultivate regenerative agriculture practices over the next five years.

Google says it has wiped out its entire carbon footprint by investing in "high-quality carbon offsets".

New $200 million laboratory aims to rectify academia’s past mistakes, but may find familiar limits

The simple act of breathing has been a challenge for residents of the Glades, a small rural community in Palm Beach County, Florida, for as long as 13-year-old Kil’mari Phillips can remember.

How about this for a series of maddening statistics?

You slide your finger across the screen, the red bird sitting in a slingshot is ready to fly - you tweak the angle and let go.