Now researchers have found that they affect populations of microbes that form the base of aquatic food webs.

A new survey of bacteria in bird feces reveals how humans are infecting animals, and how the problem could boomerang back to ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. A carefully calibrated combination of rooftop gardens and solar panels could meet 15% of a city’s vegetable needs and provide 5% of its electricity on average ...

Many believe one way to feed the world is to move our crops indoors where they’ll be shielded from the vagaries of weather, pests, and disease. Yet this type of farming requires large amounts of ...

Chemical engineers made the new portable device by mimicking two natural processes: Simple evaporation and condensation and the transport of water from plant roots to the leaves.

In the middle of the 19 th century, millions of wild passenger pigeons were slaughtered each year in the United States to ...