Scientists at the University of St. Andrews found that seals can detect blood oxygen levels, allowing them to plan dives and ...

New research by Which? suggests cooking on a gas hob can create more air pollution indoors than levels found on one of the UK’s busiest roads.

Rising carbon dioxide boosts plant growth but reduces key nutrients, weakening global food quality and crop nutrition.

However, under normal conditions it is relatively stable, only reacting slowly with oxygen to form sulfur dioxide and water ...

Sure there are caskets and cremation, but did you know about composting and green burials? Here's a primer, because it never ...

It would require that manufacturers of medium and heavy-duty trucks slowly ramp up the number of zero-emissions vehicles sold ...

It is commonly assumed that as forest ecosystems age, they accumulate and store, or "sequester," more carbon. A new study based at the University of Michigan Biological Station untangled carbon ...

Engineers have had to come up with some interesting ways to generate oxygen for astronauts in the vacuum of space.

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

The EPA later estimated that the cost of air quality regulations in the U.S. would be about $65 billion in 2020, and the benefits, primarily in improved health and increased worker productivity, would ...

The $16 million project is scheduled to start later this year, pending approval from the Colorado Department of Public Health ...

“Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and expelling oxygen,” said Roman. “For ...