Diagnosing the environmental sustainability of the internet might seem, at first, like trying to figure out where the molecules of water in your morning cup of coffee originated. Water is constantly ...

War leaves a lasting impact on climate, wildlife, water, and farmland. Military emissions and environmental harm persist for ...

Advanced clean fuels — including green hydrogen, biofuels, synthetic fuels (e-fuels), and ammonia — are increasingly positioned as the means to decarbonize ...

Studies of the potential climate effects of nuclear war in the 1980s focused on northern hemisphere, large-scale nuclear conflicts, and predicted more extreme global “nuclear winter” scenarios.

Say a pound of beef costs $5.34 at your local supermarket. That price, according to researchers, leaves out something important: beef’s heavy environmental toll. Add in things like deforestation and ...

In a recent study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, researchers investigated the environmental impact of a Mediterranean diet with reduced energy intake over one year in ...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon, water and land used to power their systems.

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen | AAAS Mass Media Fellow Key takeaways: A.I. and data ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could reduce the scope of one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. The case deals with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), ...

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...