How Big Is Your Water Footprint?
If you recently bought a pair of jeans or ate a burger for dinner, followed by a nice cup of coffee, you probably didn't link the touch of cotton or the aroma of the food to the amount of water that was used to produce them
City-Scale Congestion Pricing Picking Up Steam
What is congestion charging? Congestion charging or pricing is the practice of setting up cordon tolls around the city on a large-scale to charge entrants for entering during peak hours.
Sack Sulfates to Preserve Sewers
Sulfates used in water treatment become sulfuric acid in our sewers, eating away at the concrete infrastructure. Cynthia Graber reports.
Is Bike Sharing Really Climate Friendly?
Estimating how bike sharing keeps CO2 out of the atmosphere is complicated because every bike-sharing program works differently and collects data differently
Metamorphosis: How to Change Our Perception of Eating Insects
Entomophagy, the practice of eating insects, has been advocated for reasons ranging from their potential role in food security to their nutritional and environmental benefits.
Poaching Could Drive Elephants Extinct in Decades
Two or more dead elephants in one place means one thing: poaching by professional killers. Another tip-off is the lack of a face, as poachers hack off the tusks to be sold for ivory.
Crop Diversity Is Key to Agricultural Climate Adaptation
News out of Harvard suggests that not only will climate change affect how food is grown, but it will also lower the nutrition levels of what is grown—wheat, corn and rice in particular.
Booming Rooftop Solar Power Suffers Growing Pains
Reaping benefits from solar panels on a home may be harder than some sales pitches suggest
Wind Sets a New Record for Energy Generation in the U.K.
On Sunday night, wind power in the United Kingdom supplied more electricity than domestic coal, biomass, and hydropower (combined) and set a new record for maximum hourly output.
Public Urged to Walk and Ride Bikes to Help Cut Smog
The Chinese government has identified public participation as a key element in its efforts to reverse some of the environmental damage done by more than three decades of breakneck economic growth
Deadly Algae Are Everywhere, Thanks to Agriculture
Get used to algae blooms, they may be coming to a body of water near you
More Chinese on the Coast, Less Fish in the Sea
China's coastal economic boom is burning out its marine food resources