A new Yale-led study estimates that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth, about seven and a half times more than some previous estimates. But the total number of trees has plummeted by roughly 46% since the start of human civilization, the study...
A new Yale-led study indicates that we’re disposing of more than twice as much solid waste as we thought we were.
According to the study, published online Sept. 21 in the journal Nature Climate Change, 262 million tons of municipal solid waste were...
Yale University scientists may have cracked a part of the chemical code for one of the most basic, yet mysterious, processes in the natural world — nature’s ability to transform nitrogen from the air into usable nitrogen compounds.
The process is called...