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Scientists have tested an idea that could help reduce the melting of Arctic sea ice, and the initial results are promising. The method involves spraying of seawater onto existing sea ice in winter and letting it freeze into a new layer.

An unusually severe drought in the US produced an unexpected result for scientists. The drought almost completely blocked the release of methane from a coastal marsh located in Massachusetts.

Human evolution includes a diminutive species of ancient humans discovered on a remote Indonesian island. When archaeologists first unearthed the skeletal remains on Flores, the discovery seemed almost fantastical.

What started as a disturbing cemetery scandal outside Chicago ended with an unlikely forensic hero: a small clump of moss. In a case that sounds like it belongs in a crime thriller, FBI investigators and scientists used plant evidence to help convict four cemetery workers accused of digging up graves, moving the remains, and reselling burial plots.

Social scientist associated with the Compost Heap, a group researching alternative imaginations.

A barren stretch of volcanic rock rising from the Atlantic Ocean may not sound like one of the world's most protected places, yet almost nobody is allowed to set foot on Iceland's Surtsey island. There are no permanent residents, hotels or tourist attractions, and even scientists need special permission to visit.

A genetic analysis of nearly 700,000 people has identified 74 regions of the human genome linked to anxiety symptoms, including 39 that had never before been associated with the condition, giving scientists their most detailed picture yet of the biology behind one of the world's most common mental health disorders.

A young mathematician takes an older scientist's life's work and translates it into equations the older man cannot fully follow. Most established figures would bristle.

In the decades following the Korean War (1950-1953), the mountains in South Korea stood mainly bare due to the wartime destruction, widespread fuel collection, slash-and-burn farming, and illegal logging. This had left the country vulnerable to severe soil erosion, flooding, and declining agricultural productivity.

One of Sri Lanka's ambitious efforts to restore the country's degraded hill nearly a century ago is now being reassessed through the lens of modern ecology. Eucalyptus trees were introduced widely from the 1930s to stabilise eroded lands, supply timber and wood to reduce pressure on native forests.