Environment

Bitcoin could be as damaging to the climate as beef or oil production

Decentralizing money, but at what cost?

By Cassidy Ward | 

5 months ago

These plastic-munching superworms are living recycling plants

Your decorative table fruit doesn't stand a chance.

By Cassidy Ward | 

9 months ago

Genetically modified mosquitos kill their own offspring

It's hard to spread disease if you're never born.

By Cassidy Ward | 

1 year ago

Sweeeeeet….sustainable plastics can now be made from sugar

They probably don't taste like candy, but what they do for the environment is sweeter.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

1 year ago

Captain Planet approved! Plant-based plastics rapidly break down into fertilizer

The power is yours!

By Cassidy Ward | 

1 year ago

Eco-friendly Airlander blimps could slash short-distance travel emissions by upwards of 90%

By Jeff Spry | 

1 year ago

This kicks glass! Newly created transparent wood could be the window of tomorrow

By Jeff Spry | 

2 years ago

30 years ago, Captain Planet and the Planeteers imagined a kinder world. What can we do better now?

By Juan Michael Porter II | 

2 years ago

This high-tech farm is managed by a team of pesticide-disavowing robots

By Adam Pockross | 

2 years ago

Bizarre new species that looks like a deep-sea Facehugger was just named after the plastic it eats

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

2 years ago