Much as humans pack together in cities, it turns out coyotes inhabit at least one urban area at roughly 9 times the density they do in the wild, according to research in Washington state published ...

In a first, researchers realistically calculated how solar farms in the Gobi Desert improve air quality in northern Chinese ...

Kids leave diapers behind nearly a year later than they did in the 1950s. With 300,000 disposable diapers tossed every minute ...

In a bid to cool people, not rooms, engineers made a printable fabric that turns body motion into electrical signals that ...

The same proteins that keep a frozen pint smooth also make its fat hard to recover. A research team found an inexpensive way around the problem.

Frozen food worldwide is still kept at −18°C (0°F). Raising that by just three degrees could avoid 17 million tons of emissions a year, and an 18-month study found most foods stay safe and tasty. Sit ...

Hobbled by a lack of data, scientists have been unable to track biodiversity across much of the planet. A new initiative ...

A new ultra-black wool could make it desirable to be a black sheep. The specially dyed wool could be a low-cost, biodegradable material for producing potable water from saltwater using only sunlight.

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. What humans have wrought is heavy. In a new study, researchers calculated the weight of more than 600 million buildings in cities across the world and came up ...