Oslo, Norway is on track to become the first capital city globally to achieve a public transit system that is entirely electric. | Continue reading
Popular ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's announced that they’ll be putting their cows on a special diet to reduce emissions of methane. | Continue reading
The first mandate in the U.S. to require all-electric heating has passed in Washington state, where newly constructed buildings will need to install electric heating and hot-water systems. The mandate will go into effect in July 2023. | Continue reading
In December of last year, Florida wildlife officials decided on an unprecedented way to try and save the state’s starving manatees: outright feeding them. Now, as the trial feeding program draws to a close with warmer weather, officials say they can count it as a success. | Continue reading
Scientists have engineered a mutant enzyme that converts 90 percent of plastic bottles back to pristine starting materials. | Continue reading
As of this writing, the World Health Organization classifies the risk of global COVID-19 spread as "very high," the highest level in their risk classification scheme. | Continue reading
An enormous floating device designed by Dutch scientists for the non-profit Ocean Cleanup successfully captured and removed plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. | Continue reading
Researchers found that rainwater in some parts of the U.S. have high levels of toxic chemicals. | Continue reading
China is leading the way on renewable energy, having installed half the world's solar panels in 2017. | Continue reading
Millions of solar panels clustered together to form an island could convert carbon dioxide in seawater into methanol, which can fuel airplanes and trucks, according to new research. | Continue reading
It turns out you don't need to smoke for a lifetime to get emphysema. Just breathing polluted air can give it to you, according to a new study. | Continue reading
An 18-year-old Irish wunderkind has won the 2019 Google Science Fair grand prize for creating a method to remove microplastics from the ocean. | Continue reading
More intense monsoons in the region are projected to be one of the impacts of the climate crisis. | Continue reading
Furthermore, a report published last month showed that the U.S. had more days with unhealthy air during the first two years of Trump's term than in the previous four years, as the Associated Press reported.Many of his policies and rollbacks will threaten the air, land and water i … | Continue reading
The U.S. Military produces more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined! | Continue reading