Environment

The mystery of how a Venus flytrap closes fast enough to catch insect prey may have been partially solved. Venus...

Just under Earth’s surface, 110 quadrillion kilometres of carbon-rich fungi intersect with plant roots. This vast network has been...

Pennsylvania has become a hot spot for data center proposals and public backlash about where to build them.I’m a law professor and executive director of Penn State’s Center for Energy Law and Policy. I’m also...

China is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan Plateau, where nomadic people have grazed herds of animals for millennia.It’s not the first time Tibetan regions have become a major source...

Smokers who give up cigarettes but still vape have more than a 50 per cent higher chance of developing...

People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a once-forested hillside, or a ghostly white coral reef, may evoke tragedy and despair. But in...

The last-ditch plan...

Summer is here – the perfect time to take a walk on a beach. But doing so is not always as simple as it might sound.In Wisconsin, for instance, a legal case has stretched for...

While visiting family in St. Petersburg, Florida, in November 2024, I found myself walking down a quiet residential street in Shore Acres, a low-lying, bayfront neighborhood not far from where I grew up.Two months earlier,...

Wildland firefighters are exposed to a mix of harmful chemicals in the smoke they breathe and the ash and soot that gets on their clothing. Over long assignments fighting fires that can last for days...