When your phone stops working or you trade up for a newer model, where does it go? Like any electronic device — from laptops to lamps, washing machines to flat screen TVs — it doesn’t just disappear.
A sweeping proposal for a moratorium on factory farms is happening in Iowa.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering allowing bee-killing pesticides to be sprayed on 165 million acres of previously protected American farmland. We need to do everything in our power to save the bees.
While Ford largely supported stronger fuel efficiency and emissions standards enacted during the Obama administration, it has taken a different approach since the election of Donald Trump.
Infrastructure supports and facilitates our daily lives – think of the roads we drive on, the bridges and tunnels that help transport people and freight, the office buildings where we work and the dams that provide the water we drink. But it’s no secret that American infrastructure is aging and in desperate need of rehabilitation.
How did “throw-away”, “disposable” and “planned obsolescence” become part of product design and marketing? It was deliberate.
The use of salt to de-ice roads and parking lots has skyrocketed in recent years. As environmental consequences emerge, scientists propose creative solutions.
The troubling news about the presence of asbestos in children’s makeup is just the latest example of the deadly fiber contaminating imported products marketed toward children, said Environmental Working Group (EWG).
It’s a radical but simple experiment that builds community and keeps useful things out of the landfill.
In his new book Being the Change, climate scientist Peter Kalmus shows why, on the cusp of climate catastrophe, we are neither choiceless nor powerless.
Can conventional, GMO, glyphosate-sprayed soybeans be certified USDA Organic? Of course not.
Around the globe, seed lending libraries have been sprouting up in public libraries. The seed libraries function very much like regular libraries, except instead of books, you check out seeds and bring them back once you've harvested them.
Glitter may be fun for a party, but it's a nightmare for human and animal health.
12 therapeutic houseplants that can boost your physical health, emotional well-being—and even your brain power.
When it comes to product safety, most people rely on companies and the government to do the “right” thing.
The oceans were the original global commons, fished and navigated for ages. But new technologies have added numerous challenges to sustaining our oceans.
A multi-billion-dollar seawall is among climate adaptation options under consideration for the iconic coastal city.
These alternative burial methods give a purpose to your remains.
Every piece of plastic counts. Even one straw. Especially one straw, because, if you think about it, would you even miss it if it weren’t there?
The Trump administration proposed a rule to federalize regulation of drift gillnets used to catch swordfish on the West Coast. The rule would end California’s right to prevent the deadly entanglements of sea turtles, whales and dolphins in these underwater, mile-long nets.
Electric rickshaws have become an economic and environmental lifeline for both drivers and passengers.
In July 2017, 34 year old Chokwe Antar Lumumba was sworn in as Mayor of Jackson Mississippi. He soon announced that the city was going to be “the most radical city on the planet.”
Hollywood’s latest disaster flick, “Geostorm,” is premised on the idea that humans have figured out how to control the Earth’s climate.
Before judging a company, we need to understand what it takes to do what they do: where and how are the plants grown, collected, dried, processed and stored?
Lots of people don’t really think about it, but all of our crops that we eat, and all of the crops that our livestock eat, are all supported by pollinators.
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