An early experiment at a city landfill showed how algae and sunlight can repair environmental damage.

Natalie Wolchover writes about physicists’ effort to find laws that explain the physical world and the nature of the universe.

Lara Adler on Environmental Toxins and Chronic Disease. You know, for a lot of us this new landscape is not leading towards positive health outcomes. So I look at, you…

Here’s how one cattle ranching family in South Dakota restored a prairie, wildlife habitat, and a creek.

A new law came into effect in France on the first day of 2019 that sets an important standard in western Europe for the protection of nighttime darkness.

The space harpoon is part of the RemoveDEBRIS project, a multi-organization European effort to create and test methods of reducing space debris. There are thousands of little pieces of who knows…

Though his voyage to the Galapagos and his work with finches dominate the narrative of the famed naturalist, he was, at heart, a botanist

Some fun multimedia from NASA, including (free) Exoplanet Travel Bureau posters, cool 360-degree visualizations, and a journey into the life and death of planetary system.

NASA and NOAA data show that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, while the hottest is 2016. Global surface temperature records go back nearly 140 years. During that…

A scientist explains one of the most mind-blowing ideas in physics, in under 5 minutes.