Could playing video games help people understand and address global sustainability issues such as pollution, drought or climate change? At least two researchers believe so, outlining their argument in a concept paper published in the journal “First Monday.”

How changing global temperatures affect behavior

Deep sea sediment cores—they’re cold, they’re muddy, and they’re revealing 30,000 years of climate history—as PhD student Julia Gottschalk reports from her voyage aboard the James Cook research ship last summer

Paper Chemistry Foundation gift supports future of forest bioproducts research and education.

Helping farmers around the globe apply more-precise amounts of nitrogen-based fertilizer can help combat climate change.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today (May 15) announced a recycling program that enables customers in the United States and Canada to return used atomic absorption lamps. Under this new program, laboratories are invited to return used  hollow cathode lamps for recycling.

Surprising research suggests that biodiversity in many areas has not changed much - or actually increased.

Most supposed impact indicators at 29 sites are too old or too young to be remnants of an ancient comet that proponents claim sparked climate change at the end of the Ice Age, killed America’s earliest people and caused a mass animal extinction

Although thousands of miles from the ice-sheets of Europe, the genetic record of bee species in the islands of the South Pacific carries evidence of the dramatic global effects of climate change over the past 20,000 years.

Register now for 18th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference (GC&E), the longest running green chemistry conference in the United States, and save up to $100 on your registration when you sign up by May 16, 2014.

A growing partnership between the University of Michigan and a company in Dexter is a model for how university-to-business ties can produce significant mutual benefits.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Apr. 22 that USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded $6 million to 10 universities to study the effects of climate on agriculture production and develop strategies to provide farmers and ranchers with the solutions they need to supply the nation with quality food.