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Rather than generating climate-warming emissions and wasting nutrients and energy, food waste can become a resource if processed in sewage treatment plants.

Farming areas that use lots of fertilizers and pesticides stood out for the swift and accelerating decline of their bird populations.

Despite Iranian threats to destroy any ships that pass through a key maritime route, some ships are still doing so.

Critical minerals are found in several forms in the ocean, from potato-size nodules to brine pools. They are also in some of the least understood parts of our planet.

Scientists mapped the evolution of 140 glacial lakes in Alaska and found a way to tell how much larger and destructive they can get as their glaciers melt.

Oil prices affect the US economy differently than in past decades. Nowadays, the US is less reliant on oil imports and uses less oil to produce more economic output.

In Pennsylvania, new data centers could require enough electricity to power 11 million homes.

The answer has to do with the air we breathe and that bright white snowpack, as an atmospheric scientist in Colorado explains.

The answer has to do with the air we breathe and that bright white snowpack, as an atmospheric scientist in Colorado explains.

From wearable samplers to passive environmental monitoring, new research is changing how scientists observe chemical exposure - without invasive sampling.