Car pollution
6PPD, a chemical found in tires, is devastating aquatic life. Earthjustice is fighting to protect the impacted species and ecosystems.
NTS: Wonderful Waste – From Plastic Trash to Terrazzo Treasure
Co-founders & couple, Rosalie and Adam, firmly believe recycled materials should be as beautiful and desirable as anything new. Together they’ve been creating recycled and repurposed designs for more than…
Carbon-based inks make first fully recyclable transistors – Physics World
New devices address the growing problem of electronic waste
New Zealand to ban most single-use plastics by 2025
The new bans were an important step, but still missed many of the largest producers of plastic waste in New Zealand, said Assoc Prof Terri-Ann Berry, the director of Environmental…
The Problem is not People
anti human thoughts
Environmentally friendly birth control?
Which birth control is right for me... and the environment? Picking your uterus protector according to how good it is for the planet is a surprisingly complicated conundrum! Umbra helps…
Behind the Hype of ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat
Some folks have big plans for your future. They want you—a burger-eatin’, chicken-finger-dippin’ American—to buy their burgers and nuggets grown from stem cells. One day, meat eaters and vegans might…
The Mean, Green, Water-Cleaning Machine
The Algal Turf Scrubber (ATS) is one of the marine ecology field’s best-kept secrets. Invented by Smithsonian scientist Dr. Walter Adey in the 1980s, the ATS harvests algae from large…
The Uninhabitable Earth
To read an annotated version of this article, complete with interviews with scientists and links to further reading, click here. I. ‘Doomsday’ Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise,…