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China has planted billions of trees over the past four decades as part of its fight against expanding deserts, mostly in its north...The trees have held back China′s deserts. But some scientists worry that the planting could worsen water scarcity.

Thomas Crowther wants to restore the planet, but first he needs to know how many trees, fungi, worms and microbes live on it...Crowther’s maps are bouncing onto the pages of leading science journals — five so far this year in Science and Nature alone — and he has just won the British Ecological S

The Tuvalu Fisheries Department has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Tuvalu PROP, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

Former workers who entombed a radioactive waste site in the Pacific Ocean left a clear message before completing their work: a middle finger.

From the island country of Fiji, researchers have described nine new, and four previously known, species of bees belong to the genus Homalictus, a group that’s not been taxonomically reviewed in Fiji for 40 years.

This is the third in a four-part series on Moana Marae, the massive, recently enacted multiple-use marine protected area covering the Cook Islands’ entire exclusive economic zone...

More than two-thirds of the planet is covered by ocean, but these waters have not received their due in terms of research dollars or public attention.

At the edge of an ancient lava flow where jagged black rocks meet the Pacific, small off-the-grid homes overlook the calm blue waters of Papa Bay on Hawaii’s Big Island — no tourists or hotels in sight.

Stacy Jupiter, a marine scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society who earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz in 2006, is among the 26 new MacArthur Fellows for 2019. The prestigious MacArthur fellowships, awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T.

From the depths of the Mariana Trench to the salt on our tables, plastic pollution has infiltrated our planet. Plastic is a material designed to be “thrown away” without considering the fact that “away” does not exist.