When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles.

One of the most troubling paradoxes of trying to save endangered species is when other animals are killed. Wolves are shot in Canada to rescue ailing caribou. Barred owls are shotgunned in Pacific ...

Unless we change something, by 2050 we will be losing so much food to the impacts of climate change, that we will need to double crop yields from current quantities. Closing this gap will require ...

Until now, there has been a lot more research on attitudes about wind energy projects compared to solar, and more studies of support for proposed solar installations than attitudes about existing ...

Johnston and colleagues have found in the past that these clays can bind significant quantities of highly toxic contaminants. This was surprising because these types of clays are generally ...

Older companies are more environmentally sustainable than younger ones, according to a new analysis. The findings upend popular assumptions of old organizations as hidebound and incapable of change, ...

In a striking example, the researchers compare the species-rich waters of the Micronesian island of Kiribati, to the less productive seas around Iceland. In Kiribati, the category of ‘most nutritious ...