Carbon taxes can cut GHG emissions while being economically fair
In Massachusetts, researchers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory conducted an extensive analysis of several proposals and concluded that putting a price...
New discovery finds rocks produce more than a quarter of the nitrogen available to...
In California, the prevailing science has indicated that all of the nitrogen on Earth available to plants comes from the atmosphere. But a study...
Now, cow emissions can be more accurately estimated
In Pennsylvania, leading the worldwide effort to get a better handle on methane emissions from animals, an international consortium of researchers devised more accurate...
High-tech farming works in rural communities, too
In Arizona, technologies that allow astronauts and polar explorers to grow fresh foods in space and Antarctica can benefit rural communities, too. Dr. Gene...
20 percent of Americans account for half of U.S. food-related GHG emissions
In Michigan, on any given day, 20 percent of Americans account for nearly half of U.S. diet-related greenhouse gas emissions, and high levels of...
Forests are changing due to shifts in rainfall and temperature
In Florida, American forests are changing, thanks to climate change-induced shifts in rainfall and temperature that are causing shifts in the abundance of numerous...
Using agriculture and fisheries waste to improve soil quality and reduce emissions
In the United Kingdom, the University of Portsmouth is playing a major role in a European project using agricultural and fisheries waste to develop...
Earth system models project global ocean fishery declines by 2300
In New York, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and Cornell University extended the state-of-the-art Earth system models for physical and biogeochemical oceanic...
The rural poor in mid-Victorian Britain had better health and lived longer
In the United Kingdom, a new study examined the impact of regional diets on the health of the poor during mid-19th century Britain and...
New proton battery promises more energy in an environmentally-friendly package
In Australia, for the first time, researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne demonstrated a working rechargeable proton battery that could re-wire how we power...