Environment

As we learn to think and act as an interdependent global species, we must look critically at all the forms...

Executives from the biggest U.S. airlines asked the Biden administration for "immediate intervention" in today’s scheduled rollout of 5G technology...

If direct air capture systems were built alongside offshore wind turbines, they would have an immediate source of clean energy...

Scientists are finding that beavers’ small-scale natural interventions are valuable. In dry areas, beaver ponds restore moisture to the soil;...

There's a human-caused extinction crisis underway — probably the start of the sixth mass extinction — and denial or indifference...

The U.S. is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage....

The FDA has allowed nanoparticles into the food supply under the Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) provision and twenty states...

The Kingdom of Tonga doesn’t often attract global attention, but a violent eruption of an underwater volcano on January 15...

Wishcycling is putting something in the recycling bin and hoping it will be recycled, even if there is little evidence...

E.O. Wilson discovered the chemical means by which ants communicate. He worked out the importance of habitat size and position...

Enjoy the environment in 2022 and find ways to help nature and communities thrive. Here are four popular New Year’s...

Here are some of the key characteristics that truly sustainable companies have in common.

Not much is known about the saola, a mysterious horned mammal native to forests in the Annamite Mountains of Laos...

Understanding energy use in animals adapted to life in the cold may also provide clues for manipulating human metabolism. Sea...

Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish, and even...