Stories by Joey Peters

Waste pickers help promote recycling among other seemingly invisible environmental activities in India

Experts argue that carbon labeling might promote energy efficiency and other efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Coca production in Colombia leads to forest clearing thanks to U.S. drug use

Gadget churn creates toxic e-waste but recycling may help

Plans to build North Dakota's largest transmission line in three decades drew support from legislators, farmers and environmental groups, but now the project is running up against objections from landlowners

Growth and climate change may team to force water shortages in many cities by mid-century

Programmable thermostats may be making it harder to save energy

Although it is still loosely defined, net-zero usually means a building that produces as much energy as is consumed

A new technology could create a much more rapid charging time for lithium ion batteries

The turbines work by capturing the energy of flowing water, which they pick up from waves, tides and currents

As the new decade opens up, researchers are gathering data that will redefine weather pattern averages for the nation