
Invisible Environmentalists Help Clean Up India
Waste pickers help promote recycling among other seemingly invisible environmental activities in India
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
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