Natural Environment

Tech companies are rolling out new noise-reduction tools to filter out cacophony on your calls—but you need to know how to find them. As part of its iOS 16.4 update last week,…

Sadia Kabir remembers when she was introduced to electrochemistry, the branch of science that explains how chemical reactions create electricity and…

WASHINGTON—Representatives of Europe’s two top economies proposed new efforts with the U.S. to strengthen supply chains for critical minerals used in electric vehicles and other…

Toyota’s TM 1.16% chief executive always said he wasn’t a skeptic about electric vehicles—he was a realist. Longtime CEO…

The Mexican government is shutting down a plan by a California startup to inject sunlight-reflecting particles into the atmosphere with high-altitude balloons in an attempt to cool the…

BRUSSELS—Europe aims to provide more support to its domestic clean-tech industry in a push to counter subsidies from the U.S. and China, European Commission President…

Using a car-size prototype assembled atop a Swiss peak, an international group of researchers demonstrated for the first time that it was possible to use a laser to guide lightning.The…

Agriculture companies are investing millions of dollars to develop farming programs designed to capture more carbon dioxide in fields, as a possible solution to mitigate climate change.The…

One of the most important technologies to address climate change got a boost Thursday when a startup said it pulled carbon dioxide from the open air and stored it underground. The company…

WASHINGTON—More than a century after blight decimated the American chestnut tree, the U.S. government is weighing whether to allow a genetically engineered version to spread in the wild.The…