While scientists learn more with each passing study about the way the invisible lives of fungi, bacteria, viruses and other microscopic organisms intersect with much larger plants and animals as well as the planet, Tim Donohue and a group of prominent scientists want to make sure researchers don’

As a boy, wet and muddy to the knees, John Greenler did his share of up-ending rocks in streambeds to search for the crayfish and salamanders dwelling below.

What will it take to make a cross-country drive in a light duty vehicle, the kind of car or truck many of us drive every day, a low-carbon pursuit?

On October 1, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the lowering of its national ambient air quality ozone standard (NAAQS) from 75 to 70 parts per billion (ppb).

Srivatsan “Vatsan” Raman joined the faculty in the Department of Biochemistry as an assistant professor in August. Read this Q&A with Professor Raman with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

For many of us, the thought of seaweed conjures up the slippery green strands we reluctantly wade through to reach the more inviting depths of our favorite summer swimming hole.

Extreme summers like that of 2012 — which saw record temperatures in cities across the U.S. — may be atypical, but experts say they will return, especially as the planet warms under climate change. And as they do, cities will be especially vulnerable.