environment
Trees store carbon dioxide, have a cooling effect in cities, and reduce flood risks.
As air pollution increases, so does violent crime.
Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
Too few babies — not overpopulation — is likely to be a major problem this century.
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.
Some wild animals thrive near humans, but only up to a point.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
Cartography is serious business in Switzerland — but once in a while, the occasional map gag slips through.
Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.
A revolution of the mind must occur in order for humanity to succeed on a finite planet.
A Harvard professor’s study discovers the worst year to be alive.
The lush biodiversity of South America’s rainforests is rooted in one of the most cataclysmic events that ever struck Earth.
Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.
Growing marijuana in large, climate controlled warehouses is good for production but has a massive carbon footprint.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
Masks are great, but what happens when we try to throw out a billion masks at once?
A reversal in Earth’s magnetic field 42,000 years ago triggered climate catastrophes and mass extinctions. Can the field flip again?
If more people decide to apply pressure through their choices, slowly but surely we would reach climate change herd immunity.
If we lose our pollinators, we’ll soon lose everything else.
By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
In May 2018, the city of Paris set an ambition to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
Surprising as it may seem, we are all very good at denial. Negation, however, is a different phenomena.
Researchers analyze prehistoric viruses in animals dug out from the Siberian permafrost.
A warming Arctic Circle could be responsible for bursts of cold weather in the south.
The organisms were anchored to a boulder 900 meters beneath the ice, living a cold, dark existence miles away from the open ocean.
Pandemics have historically given way to social revolution. What will the post-COVID revolution be?
A study of europium crystals shows the planet was mostly flat during its middle ages.