Green Living

When gas mileage cost was explicitly revealed on new car window stickers, potential consumers were more likely to choose the most efficient vehicle. David Biello reports.

 

Why some greenery can make smog worse

Here's a primer on the EPA's upcoming rules for polluting power plants

The Berlin Air Show witnessed a silent, clean test flight by Airbus's E-Fan two-seater aircraft, which is entirely propelled by electricity

New York City struggled to overcome water pollution as Ted Steinberg details in his new book Gotham Unbound

Pilot cap-and-trade schemes in various places in China have faced a host of difficulties, including a lack of trading

Researchers are developing software that will let renewable energy flow into and out of a decentralized power grid like data on the Internet

Let's face it: plastic bags are really handy. But as we know, they're also terrible for the environment and for wildlife. They jam landfills, where they will not decompose for centuries, and they float across wide swaths of the seas.

In the last post I presented results from my poll on the importance of cars to your everyday life. The results suggest, simply put, that its importance is sliding downwards.

Dive into the limpid waters off Indonesia's resort island of Bali and you'll spot the beginnings of an environmental success story. Older reefs are recovering from the devastating coral bleaching of 1998 and 2009.

Psychologists find that the agricultural region in China where people grew up predicted whether they have an individualistic or communal outlook