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Last fall, on a farm in Northern Wisconsin, a farmer spread 1,421 metric tons of crushed volcanic rock on his fields before planting soybeans and...
A typical accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, is small and hidden behind a larger house. But a program in San Diego makes it possible to add several...
When he was in grad school at MIT, Alex Bratianu-Badea got stuck on a plane at Boston Logan Airport that had to be de-iced, delaying the flight. As he...
A proposed new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would mean that most cities have to replace their lead water pipes within a...
At a city park in Antwerp, the sound of traffic is constant. The park sits next to a major highway. But the city is now redesigning the space to make...
Sitting on the waterfront at the northern edge of Manhattan, a recently opened athletic facility for Columbia University is likely to flood in the...
When the United Nations held its first annual climate conference in 1995 in Berlin, Michael Jordan was still in the NBA, Google didn’t exist yet,...
The food system is at a pivotal moment: The agriculture sector has a massive carbon footprint, and the extreme weather caused by climate change is...
In 2020, Google set a goal to get to 24/7 carbon-free energy by the end of the decade, meaning that all of its data centers and offices will run on...
When a wind turbine reaches the end of its life after two or three decades, the giant blades attached to it usually end up in a landfill. That’s...
Climate change is making asthma worse, as hotter temperatures increase ozone pollution and wildfires and make pollen season longer. But asthma,...
The carbon footprint of new buildings keeps shrinking. But most buildings are old—and heating and cooling them is one of the world’s largest...
Inside a parking garage in Manhattan, new EV chargers hanging on the wall are each around the size of a carry-on suitcase. But they’re capable of...
In the summer of 2021, researchers from the nonprofit 5 Gyres carried a crate filled with samples of plastic trash to a dock in Long Beach,...
Drew Wilkinson never expected to work at Microsoft. For a decade, he’d played in a punk band and worked at small, scrappy environmental nonprofits...
Polyester clothing is made in a process that uses ethanol—and that ethanol is normally made from petroleum or gas. But a new line of T-shirts,...
By 2030, to avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change, global emissions need to be 43% lower than they were in 2019—a massive drop. That’s...
When his young daughter was diagnosed with cerebral palsy more than a decade ago, engineer Jeremiah Robison happened to be working on wearable...
A new satellite that launched today is the first to be able to accurately measure how much CO2 is being emitted from a specific power plant or...
Across the street from a farm in California’s Central Valley, a gleaming new three-story structure is now quietly pulling CO2 from the air. Run by a...
If you live in an old-school New York City apartment building with steam heat—and no thermostat to control the temperature—your apartment may get...
On a farm growing cotton and corn in Panola County, Mississippi, 680 acres will soon be planted with nearly 300,000 oaks, sycamores, and other native...
As a growing number of people decide to switch careers to work on climate change, we’re running a series of interviews with people in...
Five years ago, before the catastrophic Camp Fire burned through Paradise, California, destroying 11,000 homes and killing 85 people, driving through...
In the U.S., cities like Denver and Austin plan to be carbon neutral by 2040. Seattle and Miami are aiming for 2050. In Finland—where the whole...
In the U.S., cities like Denver and Austin plan to be carbon neutral by 2040. Seattle and Miami are aiming for 2050. In Finland—where the whole...
When you think of The Nature Conservancy, you might think of their work protecting forests or helping bring back buffalo to the American West. But the...
If you buy a cashmere sweater from Johnstons of Elgin, a 226-year-old Scottish wool mill, you might pay $450. Some other brands charge thousands. But...
On a drive to work in San Diego a few years ago, Harvey Vaughn, the pastor at Bethel African Methodist Church, listened to a story on the radio about...
Most American trucks are now enormous, and electric trucks are especially heavy: The Ford F-150 Lightning weighs more than 6,000 pounds, thanks to its...
On a site next to a sawmill in Waverly, Virginia, a startup takes sawdust and offcuts from the mill and heats it up to turn it into biochar, a...
When he was growing up in a small village in Rwanda in the 1990s, Vital Nsengiyumva didn’t always go to school. If he needed to take care of his...
By the end of next year, if you want to drive to a central part of Stockholm, you’ll have to have an electric car or another vehicle that meets...
The $7 billion that the Department of Energy is pouring into seven new hydrogen hubs, called H2Hubs, is intended to “kick-start a national network...
A typical distribution center is a windowless, harshly lit warehouse, built to prioritize economics rather than the environment or the humans who work...
In 1954, Bell Labs created the first commercial silicon solar cell. But more than 40 years earlier, another inventor had launched a business to sell a...
By 2030, most new cars sold globally may be electric. (In Norway, the vast majority already are.) But there will still be more than a billion gas and...
It looks like a flattened cardboard box. But with a few folds, a new design transforms into a low-cost bed that can be used at shelters after a...
Every year, the world’s coffee drinkers throw out as much as 60 million tons of coffee grounds—and when they end up in landfills, coffee grounds...