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A healthy environment as a human right

Katarina Zimmer — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:00:20 GMT

UN recognition would strengthen legal arguments for preserving nature

Growing a more resilient global food system

Bob Holmes — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:19 GMT

Covid-19 has been a stress test for the world’s food supply chains — and a preview of looming threats. That’s making efforts to improve the journey from farm to fork more urgent than ever.

Baking resilience into the food system

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:10 GMT

VIDEO: Watch our conversation about the pandemic’s effect on global food supplies and distribution, and how we might prevent future crises arising from climate change

The dazzling history of solar power

Adam Levy — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:13 GMT

PODCAST: Once fringe and futuristic, this renewable energy shines brightly today as a cheap and efficient source of energy. Still, it remains controversial — for much different reasons. (Season 1/Episode 3)

Rising to meet the tide

Carrie Arnold — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:11 GMT

As the threat of coastal flooding grows, scientists are responding with an inundation of data. Faster and more accurate forecasts can save lives and property.

Recycling meets reality

M. Mitchell Waldrop — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:01 GMT

Modern industry has made great strides in turning trash into tomorrow’s new products, but the process is still a long way from perfect. New technologies can help. Plus, updates on chemical recycling, design for recycling and dirty recycling.

Rethinking recycling

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:01 GMT

VIDEO: Diverting recoverable materials helps keep trash from overwhelming landfills, but the industry still faces many challenges. Consumer education, innovative technologies and turning wastes to energy can help manage the rubbish problem.

Why solar geoengineering should be part of the climate crisis solution

Betsy Mason — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:16 GMT

The controversial technology of reflecting sunlight away from the planet could help blunt the worst impacts of climate change

Quest to secure the world’s vanishing ice

David Adam — Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:28 GMT

Glaciologists dream of a cold-storage vault in Antarctica to preserve key samples of the paleoclimate

Pollution evolution: The little fish that could

Wudan Yan — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:23 GMT

Where other species succumbed, the killifish survived contaminated habitats. It’s a finding that could help researchers understand environmental risk factors for humans.

Out of Antarctica, churnings of climate change

Anil Ananthaswamy — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:25 GMT

The interplay of carbon dioxide, winds and Southern Ocean waters could be reaching an environmental tipping point

Why green energy finally makes economic sense

Bob Holmes — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:14 GMT

Solar and wind generators have suddenly become just as cheap as other ways to produce electric power

The iron ocean

Emily Underwood — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:00:19 GMT

Through dust, not rust, the metal plays a complex, controversial role in Earth’s climate

The tricky task of tallying carbon

Adam Levy — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:07 GMT

To slow or stop global warming, the world agrees it must cut carbon dioxide emissions. But monitoring each nation’s output of greenhouse gases is not always straightforward.

What are fire whirls? | Things to Know

Knowable Magazine — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:14 GMT

VIDEO: Researchers examine the behavior of these tornado-like fire columns

A world in a bottle of water

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:00:02 GMT

Revolutionary techniques using traces of environmental DNA are analyzing entire ecosystems “from microbes to whales”

Tiny, living stones of the sea

Laura Poppick — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 00:00:25 GMT

How limestone-covered algae sway global climate — and how their fate may shift as the oceans acidify

Toward greener plastics

Marcus Woo — Fri, 24 May 2019 00:00:24 GMT

Researchers and companies are working on new kinds of biodegradable packaging, bottles and other products that break down like compost.

As climate changes, so does life in the planet’s soils

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega — Fri, 17 May 2019 00:00:17 GMT

To understand what might be lost, ecologist Janet K. Jansson taps molecular methods to explore Earth’s underground microbes, from the permafrost to the grasslands

Will the food of the future be genetically engineered or organic? How about both?

Rachel Ehrenberg — Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:09 GMT

Feeding the planet — now and tomorrow — is no small task. Plant biologist Pamela Ronald says sustainability means using every tool in the toolbox.