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Fiji is already relocating villages because of climate change

Dozens of villages have to move or be destroyed.

AI is becoming a bigger and bigger problem for the climate. Can "digital sobriety" help?

Artificial intelligence might not take your job, but it can use up all your water and electricity.

A Fungal Disease Killing Bats Is Linked to Thousands of Infant Deaths in the US

When bats die in large numbers, it adversely affects our farmers, food, and kids.

New study says China uses 80% artificial sand. Here's why that's a big deal

No need to disturb water bodies for sand. We can manufacture it using rocks or mining waste — China is already doing it.

The Paris Olympics Torch Burns Green -- Why "83 bottles of wine per person" is not that much

Experts calclate the Olympics' impact at 31 beef burgers or 83 bottles of wine per person.

A simple trick could cut down global food waste by half: Just look at the “cold chains”

Optimizing the global refrigerated supply chain can help us save a lot of food, feed millions of hungry people, and protect our climate.

Making cement and bricks out of the gemstone olivine could cut CO2 emissions by 11 percent

Cement and clay bricks could be replaced with olivine-based alternatives.

Meet Mammoth, the world’s largest vacuum that now sucks thousands of tons of carbon out of the air

We'll need many more such Mammoths if we're serious about climate change.

London just built a massive sewage tunnel to clean up its poop problem

The tunnel is large enough to fit three buses side by side.

This couple's farm wasn't generating any profits. Then, they turned it into a wildland

22 years ago, a couple switched from modern farming to wildland farming. Here is how this decision transformed the lives of many life forms.

Is python meat a sssustainable alternative to industrial meat from farm animals?

Pythons can provide large volumes of high-protein meat, and with a lower carbon footprint. So, would you like to try some?

Scientists figured out a way to recycle clothes — without needing to burn them

The technology separates fibers in the clothes, allowing them to be used again.

Beaches and dunes are under assault — and our cities are the culprits

Researchers call for further protection by designating natural reserves

New hydrogel system could help us clean micropollutants from water quickly and sustainably

While still in early stages, the researchers are working to make it commercially available

Scientists boost plant disease resistance by engineering their microbiome

It could eventually lead to lower use of pesticides in agriculture

Creating an image with AI uses as much energy as charging your smartphone

Researchers look at how much power AI tools need to do what seem like simple tasks

Free-ranging domestic cats are wreaking havoc on wild species

Domestic cats when allowed to roam outside kills hundreds of wild animals that are already at risk of extinction.

More grass, less asphalt. The best recipe for trees to provide ecosystem services

Study looks into how trees could provide the most benefits in our urban spaces.

Cigarette butts cost the world $26 billion per year in environmental damage

Researchers call to ban the sale of plastic cigarette filters

Could rice husk and newspapers create a new sustainable insulation material?

It could help bring down the environmental impact of the construction sector

Mapping Mogens: A researcher's cat adventures revealed through science

Do you know what your cat is doing?

Coal particle pollution is twice as deadly as that from other sources

Pollution from coal-fired power plants is much more deadly than previously thought. But there is also some very good news.

The ultra-rich and ultra-polluting: Richest 1% emit as much greenhouse gas as two-thirds of mankind

Report calls to fairly tax the super-rich to curb climate change and inequality

Before humans, Europe was a very different continent

Researchers call to reassess what our idea of what European nature is

Researchers are rushing to cryofreeze at-risk plants and save them from extinction

Native plants in Australia are in grave danger due to a fungal disease. Here is how cryopreservation might save them.

Sunflowers “see” the sun in a completely different way than we thought

The plants don’t use conventional processes to follow the sun.

Bitcoin is even worse for the environment than we thought

It's not just greenhouse gas emissions. Bitcoin is affecting land and water quality, too.

A warning from Sable Island: small islands may be losing their water lifeline

Study looks at Sable Island as an example of what is happening to many other islands

In just seven years, this island went from barren to blossoming

Wild goats and rats used to rule Redonda. Now, the island is a symbol of rewilding.

The Mayans mastered water management. What can we learn from them?

Study looks at water reservoirs that were in use for over 1,000 years

This humble creature helps produce more grains than Russia

They don’t just keep the soils healthy -- they do much more.

The world's largest flower is in terrible danger. These researchers want to save it

The group is way more threatened than previously assumed.

Human activity is chopping up the tree of life: we're hacking off entire branches through extinction

We are "mutilating" the tree of life and this has implications for human society

Earth is no longer a 'safe operating space for humanity.' Climate change isn't even the biggest problem

Study looks into the planetary boundaries and how we are affecting them

Environmental activists are being killed all over for trying to protect the planet

Every other day, an environmental defender is killed.

Heat pumps are way more efficient than fossil fuels and this study clearly demonstrates it

The performance of heat pumps is remarkable.

Invasive species cost the world half a trillion dollars every year

Invasive pests are increasingly getting out of hand -- and we're paying the price.

Researchers unravel the mystery of how plants pass down genetic information across generations

This has implications way beyond just plants.

The new tool for helping coral reefs? Trees

Study finds biodiversity can be restored in degraded areas by using trees as reefs

Asian Americans have the highest exposure to toxic forever chemicals. Scientists aren't sure why

Study looks into the exposure to PFAS for different ethnic and racial groups.

Sabertooth cats, dire wolves, and other megafauna went extinct 13,000 years ago in California. Wildfire and humans may be to blame

Humans and fire were driving prehistoric animals out. Kind of like what's also happening now.

New device uses wood dust to trap almost all microplastics in water

It’s at a lab stage but researchers think it could be scaled up easily and inexpensively

From plastic waste to cleaning power: researchers find way to upcycle plastics into soap

Study creates simple method to upcycle plastic

More than half of Earth's species live underground

Study looks at scientific literature and data sets on species living in soils

World’s oldest and fastest-evolving moss might not survive climate change

Researchers collected samples, studied its habitat and sequenced its genome.

Finally, some good news. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunges to six-year-low

Leaders of Amazonian countries will meet this week to protect the rainforest.

The US wants to plant one billion trees -- but there's not enough seedlings

Study looked at plant nurseries across the country and found big gaps.

Wood may not be the climate-friendly building material we used to think

Study shows logging has a higher carbon footprint than expected.

Most research on 'forever chemicals' doesn’t get any kind of media coverage -- and it's a problem

This risks the information not properly reaching the public.

Scientists use CRISPR to make wood fiber production more sustainable

They believe this could be applied to multiple tree species

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