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A large part of Earth's land is increasingly degraded and coffee could be used to help/
Indigenous communities can help protect the forests but are highly challenged by extractive industries
Situation is bleak but some conservation efforts are working well
Deforestation leads to infection, and we've all seen what infectious diseases can cause
What's the connection between a doughnut and rampant social inequality? Glad you asked...
Delicious and cruelty-free meat.
As the current New South Wales flooding highlights, it’s not enough to continue to build cities and towns based on business-as-usual planning principles — especially as these disasters tend to disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations, increasing social inequality. We need to design our urban spaces around the idea that flooding is inevitable. That means not building […]
They are water-soluble and eco-friendly, you can eat them or throw them away.
Please no I don't have an air conditioner.
It had a massive two-foot beak that squeezed its brain.
Solar cells and greenhouses work better than researchers thought.
It's a multi-million-dollar business but also a high-emissions one.
No wonder why they have the largest brain on the planet
Being exposed to the sounds of nature has important health benefits.
It's not meant to remove what's already there, but to stop new trash from piling up.
With Trump gone, the Environment Protection Agency can finally be about the environment again.
Donations (especially massive ones like this one) are very helpful during difficult times.
It's time for the barbaric practice to come to an end.
Maybe just... stop doing it?
A conservation project seeks to help this tiny but impressive bird.
Researchers find million-year-old plants in frozen ice core.
New tech developments are happening in the wind power sector
Urban floods are about to become that much worse.
We need as many ways to get rid of plastic as possible.
It was already a big problem before the Covid-19 pandemic, but plastic waste is now turning into an even larger issue – and face masks, in particular, are not helping the cause. We need them to avoid the spread of the virus but at the same time, there’s no official guidance on how to dispose […]
The world's biodiversity was suffering before. Now, it's worse.
Glass frogs are famous for their see-through skin that can even reveal the amphibians’ internal organs. Surprisingly, not too much attention has been given to this fascinating translucency — until now. An international team of researchers used a combination of field trials and computer-aided modeling and detection to analyze the glass frog’s translucent skin in […]
In less than a century, it could become too hot and humid to live there.
Our food habits are largely unsustainable.
On a plot of farmland in Lelystad, Netherlands, art and technology merge in a stunning light show. During the day, the 20,000-square-meter field looks like any piece of farmland, but by the night it is transformed into a psychedelic wonderland. Don’t be fooled by the pretty lights, though. The installation actually serves to enhance crop […]
Say no to indoor cannabis. Outdoor... well, that's a different story.
This ancient village fought against the sea.
Study sheds light on plant's evolutionary race
She's the oldest known wild bird in history -- and she's pretty awesome!
Your future furniture might be produced with lab-grown wood
We seriously have to re-think our food shopping and cooking
They are becoming a larger and larger problem worldwide
We're still very far from our sustainable objectives.
Plastic debris tends to accumulate in garbage patches.
A two-lane road would use up to 3 million masks.
Teach me your secrets, cuttlefish.
Some forests have strong allies in wild boars.
Coffee is always in fashion. But single-use cups are not.
Campaigners ask to include more appliances into the legislation
Sometimes, speed is of the essence.
Hey at least there's a silver lining.
Despite the perception that going vegetarian or vegan is 'hard', it's never been easier than ever to cut meat out from your diet.
Biggest polluters have to step up their game this year
"The Spanish-Portuguese border acts as a quasi-impermeable barrier", researchers note.
Because of climate change, they need to spend much more energy to find food.
