“If we can unlock the full potential of our cities, we can minimize the price the planet pays for hosting us in our growing numbers,” says...
Lighting up the TED stage, Nobel laureate and climate advocate Al Gore takes stock of the current state of climate progress and calls attention to institutions...
We visited the University of Washington to see how a group is building and testing dandelion-inspired sensors that float in the wind to disperse and take...
To solve the climate crisis, we need to make tropical forests worth more alive than dead, says environmental economist Nat Keohane. Highlighting the urgent need to...
A safe space to save money is life-changing — especially for the 60 million smallholder farmers in West Africa (the majority being women) who often live...
Indigenous communities have looked after their ancestral forests for millennia, cultivating immense amounts of knowledge on how to protect, nourish and heal these vital environments. Today,...
What will happen to the planet if climate change melts what’s left of Arctic permafrost? Shedding light on this overlooked threat, Arctic geologist Sue Natali reveals...
Every year, ocean levels rise and high tides flood the low-lying Marshall Islands in the Pacific, destroying homes, salinating water supplies and disrupting livelihoods. In a...
An unnoticed industry worth two trillion dollars a year is influencing almost every carbon emission. Sustainability solution seeker Solitaire Townsend calls this sector the “X industry”...
As cities adopt greener, more sustainable designs, there’s risk of a dangerous and unwelcome tenant moving in: mosquitoes. Researcher Cameron Webb explains what urban planners and...