Land-use change is creating an infectious disease boom, study finds
Deforestation leads to infection, and we've all seen what infectious diseases can cause
Getting a new couch can help your health more than you realize — but only if you get the right type
Toxic chemicals can accumulate in the dust, and it can be a problem.
Dump the plastic: Scientists create edible food packaging films from seaweed
They are water-soluble and eco-friendly, you can eat them or throw them away.
NASA’s Mars helicopter gets ready for a historic flight
Ingenuity will have 30 days to operate before Perseverance gets back on it mission
Clean energy, high yields: greenhouse plants grow just fine with semi-transparent solar cells
Solar cells and greenhouses work better than researchers thought.
Sweat, not oil: Sports are floating on a sea of high-carbon sponsorship
It's a multi-million-dollar business but also a high-emissions one.
How sperm whales outwitted whalers by sharing tactics between them
No wonder why they have the largest brain on the planet
“Climate facts are back”. EPA brings back climate change to its website
With Trump gone, the Environment Protection Agency can finally be about the environment again.
After GameStop, redditors are pouring money into saving gorillas
Donations (especially massive ones like this one) are very helpful during difficult times.
Europe to resume AstraZeneca’s vaccination as drug regulator says it’s safe
Still, a warning label will be added to the vaccine
Small but sneaky. These are the world’s 10 smallest mammals
They may be small, but they've got some amazing skills.
France becomes last EU country to ban hunters from gluing birds to trees
It's time for the barbaric practice to come to an end.
Ocean trawling doesn’t just destroy ecosystems. It also releases massive emissions
Maybe just... stop doing it?
This endangered bird is losing its song
A conservation project seeks to help this tiny but impressive bird.
Fiction readers, rejoice: you probably have better language skills, study shows
It's time to start reading more and work on your imagination.
Study finds Greenland ice-sheet has already melted before – and it could again
Researchers find million-year-old plants in frozen ice core.
Can we get wind power without the blades or the actual wind? These startups believe so
New tech developments are happening in the wind power sector
Spain set to try a four-day working week amid Covid-19 burnout
It's just a pilot, but it could have massive effects.
Scientists continue unlocking the mysteries of the world’s oldest computer
The entire front panel was recreated with a 3D computer model, and that's when researchers noticed something.
It’s time to figure out how to deal with the face mask waste
It was already a big problem before the Covid-19 pandemic, but plastic waste is now turning into an even larger...