Green Living

Editor's Note: This is the fourth post in a series by Ulyana Horodyskyj, a geologist who is trying to determine how airborne particles such as soot that settle on massive glaciers affect how fast the ice melts.

A growing number of walkable urban areas suggests that the era of sprawling suburbs may be ending

Electric cars, no matter how sexy, still have a battery problem

The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution calls for a war against pollution to save the lives of more than eight million people annually. David Biello reports

 

Competitions can help solve some of history’s worst market failures

Each year, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory publishes a powerful graphic of U.S. energy use. In the most recent version, one can see how the ~97 quadrillion british-thermal units (quads) of energy used in the United States can be broken down by uses and sectors.

Pregnant women exposed to lead had newborns who scored slightly lower on tests measuring reflexes and other skills tied to brain development, according to a new study from China

Climate change experts want more certain actions than are called for in the new proposed rule to cut carbon dioxide from power plants

With its popularity growing in urban areas, foraging for wild foods has started to look more Portlandia than primitive. The practice hasn't always been viewed favorably; many prominent thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes viewed it as brutish, a sentiment later echoed in colonialist discourses.

Rep. Gary Peters is uncertain whether the EPA's new caps on carbon can help get him elected to the U.S. Senate from Michigan