Your closet is likely full of all kinds of materials — leather, cotton, nylon and polyester, to name a few — that contribute to fashion’s sustainability...
The deadliest severe weather phenomenon is something you might not realize: extreme heat. Eleni Myrivili, chief heat officer of the city of Athens, Greece, explains that...
Our lives depend on curbing climate change, but so many priorities seem to be in competition. What’s the most urgent thing humanity can do right now?...
“The world is a living tapestry … As the weave of life is torn apart in one place, the threads unravel in another,” says author and...
Air travel opens our eyes to the world, but it also comes at a high cost to the environment. Piloting us into a future of green...
Conservation efforts in Africa have typically been led by “parachute conservationists” — outsiders who drop in thinking they have all the answers, hire locals to implement...
Money is pollution’s biggest driving force — particularly, the cash invested in dirty energy projects, says financial responsibility campaigner Lucie Pinson. She shares a three-pronged approach...
“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...
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...
“Life makes our planet an incredibly exotic place compared to the rest of the known universe,” says astrobiologist Betül Kaçar, whose research uses statistics and mathematical...