The Earth’s massive deserts, and their persistent efforts to keep swallowing up nearby lands, have long been the bane of farmers and agriculture. Desert sands blow away, are impossible to shape, and ...

While the prestigious Nobel Prize system does not include a formal “environment” award, numerous laureates in the Peace, Chemistry, Physics, and Economic Sciences categories have been honored for ...

In the struggle against climate change, it’s easy to wish for some technology—or even magic!—that could remove Earth-warming carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere and turn it into something useful ...

In recent years, thrifting—buying secondhand clothing, furniture, and goods—has shifted from fringe to mainstream behavior in the US and worldwide. A recent report from Capital One Shopping, Thrifting ...

In recent years, the art world has begun a significant shift toward environmental responsibility. Artists, institutions, collectors, and consumers are aligning creativity with elements like reducing ...

The Ocean Census, founded by the Nippon Foundation and Nekton, seeks to add to the list of known marine species. In a September 2025 press release, the group announced that they had identified over ...

Incongruously, new research indicates that while wildfire incidence is down worldwide, the threat of wildfires to people and homes is rising precipitously. Populations are expanding into fire-prone ...

What if the world’s clean energy revolution could be powered by its garbage? A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers has unveiled a deceptively simple process that extracts ...

On its surface, Loch Carron is a beautiful, tranquil highland sea loch on the northwest coast of Scotland. The highlands there are home to a diverse range of wildlife, including pine martens, red deer ...

Urban sprawl increases the pressure for suburban sprawl to consume outlying forests, farmland, and parkland. Pixnio/Ryan Hagerty (Free to use) The detached single-family home on a spacious suburban ...

He buys up whole swaths of rainforest to save them from destruction. He partners with legendary Hollywood actors to provide green energy for Indian schools. He campaigns to make the Olympic Games more ...

Global seafood consumption has risen to 162 million tons in 2021—nearly six times the 28 million tons in 1961—according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO’s) latest report in 2024.