Soil erosion and its impact on dams and reservoirs is described as being a problem worldwide. Some of the latest research ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two species mate. Famous hybrids include offspring between polar and grizzly ...

Africa’s great rainforests were long treated as a quiet ally in the climate fight, soaking up vast quantities of carbon ...

MIT researchers developed a method that generates more accurate uncertainty measures for certain types of estimation. This could help improve the reliability of data analyses in areas like economics, ...

Floodlight reports that corn's heavy reliance on fertilizers for growth is driving greenhouse gas emissions, raising ...

A yellow mark stains the blue water tank sitting in the front yard of Lucimar Dias dos Santos Silva’s home. The same color, ...

Well-designed projects help students build valuable skills such as collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.

Aspens and standing dead trees, which are important to forest biodiversity, can be reliably identified from openly available ...

Kayla Stuart is a Tennessee-based urban forester who leads the organization Tree CPR to create healthier stronger communities ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.

Different teams need to make the same conclusion multiple times before a consensus is reached and the finding can be built ...

School districts from Utah to Ohio to Alabama are spending thousands of dollars on these tools, despite research showing the ...