environment

A mysterious startup reveals a groundbreaking solar energy achievement.

The campaign promise could only become law if the Labour Party wins the general election in December.

Switching over to a vegan-based diet can drastically cut CO2 emissions. But will Americans actually change their diet?

An Italian firm has put forward an idea for a green city that would be completely self-sustaining, modern, and green.

Researchers propose a gravity-based system for long-term energy storage.

Recycling is linear, but the economy shouldn’t be.

Unsurprisingly, the results showed that the more materialistic a person was, the less likely they were to engage in reduced consumption.

Rather than scrubbing the emissions from fossil fuel plants, a new analysis suggests we should simply replace those power plants with renewable alternatives.

A DNA study looks for the home of the earliest modern humans.

Data centers are likely to consume up to 4.1% of electricity around the globe by 2030. Can they go green?

As many as 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line by 2100.

Electrochemical methods such as this could someday dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the planet.

The new method appears to be more efficient and cheaper than current carbon capture technologies.

The consequences of our climate-cooking habits will burden all future humans.

Scientists find common chemicals can negatively impact pregnant women.

When adults are challenged to behave like adults, by a child, they can go in one of two directions.

When these particles are eaten by earthworms, the results are not good.

Since the 1940s, NASA has been testing experimental aircraft (aka X-planes) at California’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. In the past two decades, however, the agency […]

While the blockbuster franchise might have given us a distorted view of science’s capabilities to address species extinction, new research might come close to “resurrecting” lost species’ DNA.

There’s concrete tradeoff logic lurking beneath the numbers and market abstractions.

The net famously failed to work as planned last year. Now, a new version is making waves.

In hopes of saving their countries, many small nations are making big promises on cutting emissions.

If economic growth knowingly increases mass-scale suffering, can we stop chasing it?

The summit of Europe’s most active volcano is also the world’s only decipoint.

Those silky tea bags might be releasing plastics into your digestive system.

The building material seems so ubiquitous — what can we use in its place?

Bio-plastics could prove to be a suitable alternative to single-use plastics.

A new report argues that we stand to gain a lot economically by investing in 5 key areas.

Norway plans to pay Gabon $150 million to protect its vast network of rainforests.

The week-long global protest, which is calling for an end to the age of fossil fuels, is taking place in more than 160 countries today.