Environment

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has received a major a new deposit of seeds from several hundred plant species. The addition of seeds from 35 gene banks spread over seven continents brings the total number of seed samples to over a million.

NASA and Air New Zealand have entered a first-of-a-kind agreement that will see the carrier equip one of its Q300 aircraft with special receivers to gather data for environmental monitoring, to help track trends associated with climate change.

Production of cement is a big source of CO2 emissions, so the more we can recycle existing concrete, the better. That's where a new study comes in, which indicates that discarded concrete becomes stronger than it was before, when wood waste is added.

New research suggests the world's coral reefs face a battle to survive in the face of warming and more acidic waters, with scientists behind the new study projecting that as much as 90 percent of them could disappear within a couple of decades.

A new study suggests we may have been severely underestimating the role of human activity in methane emissions, uncovering evidence that levels of human-caused methane are as much as 40 percent higher than previously estimated.

New analysis from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed January 2020 to be the hottest in 141 years of record-keeping, with the four warmest Januaries on record all occurring since 2016.

Scientists digging into the ancient history of Antarctica's ice sheets have uncovered evidence of an "extreme" melting event that drove rapid and significant sea level rise, which they see as a cautionary tale for climate change.

Although they're really just ice crystals, the contrails left by airliners aren't entirely innocuous. According to a new study, however, changing the altitude of flights by just 2,000 feet could greatly reduce their effect on the environment.

According to the latest report from IEA, in 2019 global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions stayed steady from the previous year. That’s cause for some cautious optimism, but may not signal the start of the long-term downward trend that we need.

A new NASA-led study has illuminated one of the consequences of global warming in the Arctic, with satellite data revealing that ice melt is flooding one of the region’s significant ocean currents with unprecedented amounts of fresh water.

A striking new study has identified a link between warming temperatures and local declines in bumblebee populations. The research suggests bumblebees are disappearing in both North America and Europe at a pace, “consistent with a mass extinction.”

Scientists at a research base on the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula have seen the mercury reach a relatively warm 18.3° C (65.5° F), a record high for the entire continent and almost a full degree hotter than the previous record.