This small country could vaccinate its entire adult population in a few days
Bhutan waited to have all the vaccines to start vaccinating its citizens.
Seoul is replacing street lamps with smart poles that offer electricity and WiFi
You can access WiFI, charge your electric car and even your drone from these poles.
No pandemic break for rainforests: deforestation surged in 2020
It was the third-worst year since 2002, when reliable monitoring began.
Even without fans, the home team advantage still exists
Fans or no fans, playing at home still grants you an advantage.
Covid pandemic likely started from human exploitation of wildlife, WHO finds
A team of WHO scientists went to China and looked at the causes of the pandemic. This is their much-anticipated...
Reading this? The odds are your consumer habits are causing the loss of 4 trees per year
That coffee you are drinking might be linked to deforestation.
Climate change is making cherry trees blossom earlier in Japan and the US
Tokyo recorded its earliest bloom for over 1,200 years
The bald eagle, an American national symbol, is now also a successful conservation story
The bald eagle has made a fantastic recovery across the country
Coffee waste can help restore degraded land and forests
A large part of Earth's land is increasingly degraded and coffee could be used to help/
Indigenous communities are the best guardians of Latin America’s forests
Indigenous communities can help protect the forests but are highly challenged by extractive industries
African elephants inch closer to extinction as poaching and habitat loss hit hard
Situation is bleak but some conservation efforts are working well
Land-use change is creating an infectious disease boom, study finds
Deforestation leads to infection, and we've all seen what infectious diseases can cause
Getting a new couch can help your health more than you realize — but only if you get the right type
Toxic chemicals can accumulate in the dust, and it can be a problem.
Dump the plastic: Scientists create edible food packaging films from seaweed
They are water-soluble and eco-friendly, you can eat them or throw them away.
NASA’s Mars helicopter gets ready for a historic flight
Ingenuity will have 30 days to operate before Perseverance gets back on it mission
Clean energy, high yields: greenhouse plants grow just fine with semi-transparent solar cells
Solar cells and greenhouses work better than researchers thought.
Sweat, not oil: Sports are floating on a sea of high-carbon sponsorship
It's a multi-million-dollar business but also a high-emissions one.
How sperm whales outwitted whalers by sharing tactics between them
No wonder why they have the largest brain on the planet
“Climate facts are back”. EPA brings back climate change to its website
With Trump gone, the Environment Protection Agency can finally be about the environment again.
After GameStop, redditors are pouring money into saving gorillas
Donations (especially massive ones like this one) are very helpful during difficult times.
Europe to resume AstraZeneca’s vaccination as drug regulator says it’s safe
Still, a warning label will be added to the vaccine
Small but sneaky. These are the world’s 10 smallest mammals
They may be small, but they've got some amazing skills.
France becomes last EU country to ban hunters from gluing birds to trees
It's time for the barbaric practice to come to an end.
Ocean trawling doesn’t just destroy ecosystems. It also releases massive emissions
Maybe just... stop doing it?
This endangered bird is losing its song
A conservation project seeks to help this tiny but impressive bird.
Fiction readers, rejoice: you probably have better language skills, study shows
It's time to start reading more and work on your imagination.
Study finds Greenland ice-sheet has already melted before – and it could again
Researchers find million-year-old plants in frozen ice core.
Can we get wind power without the blades or the actual wind? These startups believe so
New tech developments are happening in the wind power sector
Spain set to try a four-day working week amid Covid-19 burnout
It's just a pilot, but it could have massive effects.
Scientists continue unlocking the mysteries of the world’s oldest computer
The entire front panel was recreated with a 3D computer model, and that's when researchers noticed something.
It’s time to figure out how to deal with the face mask waste
It was already a big problem before the Covid-19 pandemic, but plastic waste is now turning into an even larger...
The pandemic has dealt a big blow to nature conservation
The world's biodiversity was suffering before. Now, it's worse.
Life in the tropics could become impossible if we don’t reduce our emissions
In less than a century, it could become too hot and humid to live there.
Study reveals the climate footprint of the food sector. And it’s a lot
Our food habits are largely unsustainable.
The lust for indoor cannabis has a nasty side effect: a lot of greenhouse gas emissions
Say no to indoor cannabis. Outdoor... well, that's a different story.
Bolsonaro’s policies helped coronavirus spread and develop variants, new study reports
It's been a trainwreck, and the Brazilian president still disregards the severity of the crisis.
Fossils in China reveal an impressive evolutionary secret of plants
Study sheds light on plant's evolutionary race
Wisdom the albatross has hatched yet another chick at the age of 70
She's the oldest known wild bird in history -- and she's pretty awesome!
Researchers find a way to grow wood in a lab, and it could curb global deforestation
Your future furniture might be produced with lab-grown wood
More than 900,000 tons of food are thrown away every year, a UN report showed
We seriously have to re-think our food shopping and cooking
Ten bloodcurdling microplastic facts we’ve recently learned
They are becoming a larger and larger problem worldwide
The UK’s unseen environmental disaster: seagrass loss
Beneath the waves, a silent tragedy is unfolding.
We need about a pandemic’s worth of CO2 drop to stop climate change
We're still very far from our sustainable objectives.
They get a lot of smack, but wild boars are actually helping forest biodiversity
Some forests have strong allies in wild boars.
It’s time to ditch the disposable cup. But many barriers still stand in the way
Coffee is always in fashion. But single-use cups are not.
The right to repair: Europe wants a revolution in how electronics are produced and repaired
Campaigners ask to include more appliances into the legislation
Most conversations don’t end when people want them to, study finds
We might need to reconsider our conversation skills -- and stop talking.
An NGO is building the world’s first 3D-printed school in Madagascar
Construction will start later this year, and the concept may expand to other countries
The planet is on “red alert” because of insufficient climate action, UN warns
Biggest polluters have to step up their game this year
Shrinking sea ice is threatening polar bears and narwhals, study shows
Because of climate change, they need to spend much more energy to find food.