Buildings in the U.S. are responsible for 40% of the country’s total energy consumption. By improving the energy efficiency of...
Vegetarian and vegan options have become standard fare in the American diet, from upscale restaurants to fast-food chains. And many...
In Baltimore, Maryland, leaky sewage infrastructure delivers tens of thousands of human doses of pharmaceuticals to the Chesapeake Bay every...
With a $2-million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Berkeley Lab has developed a cost-effective thermoelectric waste-heat recovery system...
In today’s anthropogenic world, an innocent hermit crab, just minding its own business and swimming in its search for food,...
Each morning at a transit facility in Canton, Ohio, more than a dozen buses pull up to a fueling station...
Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions, and increasing...
Air quality in the United States and Europe improved over the last decade thanks to stricter environmental regulations, but intensifying...
Can humanity drag down greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to prevent Earth’s surface from warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius...
Plastic pollution creates an “evolutionary trap” for young sea turtles, new research shows. The study, led by the University of...
At a new playground in central Warsaw, algae feast on pollutants and carbon dioxide to provide a bubble of clean...
Abrupt disruptions to Earth’s climate thousands of years ago that caused extreme sea-level rise and mass ice cap melting can...
