After decades of delay and inaction, this is a momentous breakthrough for US federal climate action. It’s a breakthrough many of us have fought for and desperately hoped for, for far too long.
When wildfires burned across Northern California in October 2017, they left behind a toxic mess. In Sonoma County, fire remediation experts, local businesses, and ecological activists mobilized to cleanse the foundations of burned-out buildings with … mushrooms.
If everyone everywhere received a free electric vehicle at the same time – and owners were required to travel at really slow speeds across well-maintained roads – the world would sound different.
Despite their status as icons of biodiversity, koalas have been in steady decline for two decades. Yet the conservation status of this Australian native has only just changed from “threatened” to “endangered” in recent months.
"Few species evoke the awe and wonder that the migratory monarch butterfly commands," Sean T. O'Brien, president and CEO of NatureServe "While efforts to protect this species are encouraging, much is still needed to ensure its long-term survival."
Most Americans are comfortable with cremation as a practice. They like the power that it gives them to inter the remains in the cemetery, keep them at home, or scatter them in forests, oceans and streams.
You want your home to feel bright and welcoming, and bringing more natural light into your home is a great way to make that happen. Natural light can also make you happier and affect your health in positive ways.
Have you ever stopped to think that we are strung together with sun energy? Sun energy is what we use for all of the things we do, such as breathing, thinking, moving, reading this article, writing, texting, blowing our noses, canoeing, loving.
Small changes go a long way in creating a healthier planet for years to come. Whether you rent an apartment or an entire house, there are several ways you can lead a more sustainable lifestyle.
Find out what’s happening anywhere in the world, including in your own neighborhood, and join in. You’ll feel better. You’ll be effective. Together, we’ll use our energy to create change to make people in power move at the rate we need to get the job done.
This is the time of year when just about everything grows. That includes poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and other undesirable plants. Poison ivy is particularly annoying and difficult to remove from your property.
Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy pilots first time initiative to support pollinators, reduce lawn inputs, and grow healthier lawns with No Mow May.
People are concerned about our impacts on the environment as pollution is getting worse, climate change is accelerating, and some ecosystems have disappeared. Even small energy improvement efforts by individuals add up.
A survey analyzing bug splat on U.K. motorists' license plates found that the nation's flying insect population has declined by nearly 60% over the past 17 years, indicating a "terrifying" loss of biodiversity.
As temperatures rise around the world, frozen glaciers in the poles are melting at unprecedented rates, inundating the world’s oceans with more water. The result has been some sea level rise but watch out as more is still to come.
Pavement causes all sorts of problems including the fact that water can’t soak through it and instead runs across it, collecting pollutants and biological contaminants that make their way into waterways, plants, animals, and ourselves.
Most gardeners know how beneficial insects can be for their plots. If you’re a gardener looking for a new challenge this year, consider revamping all or part of your yard to support beneficial insects.
They are worried about rising sea levels, extreme weather events, the spread of disease, air pollution and the extinction crisis—all issues directly impacted by the climate crisis.
The idea behind the rights of nature approach extrapolates on the Western legal system’s insistence that a corporation is considered a person. If that’s legally true, then why not grant legal personhood to a watershed or a forest?
Switzerland-based Energy Vault is one of the companies developing prototype gravity energy storage solutions that could someday replace batteries as a way to hold onto energy and dole it out as needed.
When I began gardening at age 16, no one introduced me to soil as a living, breathing being, guiding me to be more awake, aware, curious, and respectful of soil’s life. Since that time — over the 45 years in the garden — this awareness has grown.
In 2016 Japanese scientists at the Kyoto Institute of Tokyo took samples outside of a recycling facility in Osaka and made a revolutionary discovery: microorganisms capable of breaking down PET plastic.
Microplastics pose a monumental risk to the ecosystems and wildlife that form the foundation of our ability to live on this planet. There are very real risks to not addressing the concern.
While you might think you need a lot of money to swap out less eco-friendly products for ones that are better for the environment, there are things you can do right now that make a difference. Here’s five inexpensive ways to go green today.
Research shows that tropical forests recover surprisingly quickly. They regrow on abandoned lands and recover features such as soil health and ecosystem functions, in as little as 10 to 20 years.
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