The average temperature on Earth has barely risen over the past 16 years. ETH researchers have now found out why. And they believe that global warming is likely to continue again soon.

The size and age of plants has more of an impact on their productivity than temperature and precipitation, University of Arizona researchers have discovered.

Green housing traits such as better ventilation and integrated pest management can dramatically improve residents’ health.

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.