New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

For decades, the basics of plant growth have been taught in grade school: Plants make their food out of water from the soil, light from the sun and carbon dioxide from the air in a process called ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

The Congo Basin’s peatlands have stored carbon for millennia, but new research suggests much of it is now escaping.

How will astronauts breathe, eat and live during long missions to the moon or Mars? At the University of Arizona’s Biosphere ...

Big philosophical questions, like… what keeps our universe in balance? From our perspective here on earth, the universe seems ...

Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?

Many governments and businesses worldwide have been trying to devise effective initiatives aimed at mitigating climate change and global warming. So far, their primary focus has been to reduce the ...

Throughout their lifetimes, healthy forests produce more oxygen than they use, while taking in greenhouse gases via plants ...

Inhale for 5 seconds, exhale for 5 seconds and do this for 5 minutes every day. "This helps synchronise heart-brain rhythms, dropping cortisol by 20-30% via parasympathetic boost," shares Rea.

Deep in the Congo Basin, vast peatlands quietly store enormous amounts of Earth’s carbon — but new research suggests this ...

A new study published in Biochar presents a practical and regulation-compliant design for producing biochar on farms that could dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture while ...