The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is rising rapidly, with numerous negative consequences for the climate. However, ...

Plants play a key role in regulating Earth's climate, but recent research suggests that rising temperatures could disrupt ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

Plants harness quantum physics to capture solar energy with near-perfect efficiency. Scientists are now exploring how to ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory ...

A greenhouse for urban agriculture, connected to classroom 3.07 and an office at the Terrassa School of Industrial, Aerospace ...

What if the air we breathe became a source of clean energy? Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a solar ...

Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African ...

Scientists challenge the idea that intelligent life is rare. They argue that evolution follows planetary changes, not random ...

Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power their photosynthesis, which may be an evolutionary adaptation to a time when the oceans were iron-rich and green-tin ...