The World Needs Processed Food
[ad_1] The word “processed” has become something of a slur. Say “processed food” and most of us picture unhealthy, cheap junk. Fresh food straight from the garden or the field…
Air Quality Mirrors the Racial Segregation of US Neighborhoods
[ad_1] Racial inequity biases algorithms, skews Covid-19 death rates, and exacerbates the digital divide. Your race is even a good predictor of what’s in the air you breathe—and now, a…
Midwives Are an Overlooked Climate Solution
[ad_1] What’s keeping midwives from making a larger dent in the fight against climate change? To start with, there are not enough of them. The United Nations reports that there’s…
This Plastic Packaging Alternative Can Compost in a Year
[ad_1] Every year, people in the United Kingdom throw away around 96 billion pieces of plastic packaging—an average household tosses 66 pieces every week. Almost half of this packaging waste…
Europe’s Cities Are Getting More Crowded—That’s a Good Thing
[ad_1] Cities are unpredictable places. Not just in the hustle and bustle of dusty street corners, but across the sweep of time itself. Take Leipzig for example. Once the fifth…
The Infinite Cloud Is a Fantasy
[ad_1] Since the turn of the millennium, the tech industry has spent billions to conjure a seductive narrative that the cloud—a term most nontechnical people use to mean everything the…
No, Qatar’s World Cup Can’t Be Classed as Carbon-Neutral
[ad_1] Since controversially being awarded the 2022 FIFA World Cup back in 2010, Qatar has promised that the soccer tournament—which kicks off on November 20—will be carbon-neutral. This would be…
Truffles Are Becoming Even More Expensive. Blame Climate Change
[ad_1] “The biggest finding that we had was that truffles were responding to these hot and dry summers,” says Steidinger. He and colleagues found that a temperature anomaly of just…
Europeans Are Burning Trees to Keep Warm
[ad_1] In the past few decades, the European Union has transformed its energy system. In 2005 about 10 percent of all energy consumed in the EU came from renewable sources.…
New Mexico’s Beloved Pinyon Jay Is Losing Its Pine Habitat
[ad_1] The petition contains the first estimate of total acreage of piñon-juniper habitat currently treated by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service in states with pinyon…
This Platform Makes Sure Companies Stick to Their Climate Pledges
[ad_1] After mapping comes planning. Sustainability professionals, warehouse managers, CFOs, or whoever uses the platform are given a to-do list for decarbonization. “It explains specifically what kind of materials you…
Mathieu Flamini Has a Plan to Decarbonize the Chemical Industry
[ad_1] In 2008, the soccer player Mathieu Flamini moved from Arsenal, where he’d spent four years as a tough but classy midfielder, to AC Milan in Italy’s Serie A. At…
Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hosts
[ad_1] The Arctic—that remote, largely undisturbed, 5.5 million square miles of frozen terrain—is heating up fast. In fact, it’s warming nearly four times quicker than the rest of the world,…
Where Did Omicron Come From? Maybe Its First Host Was Mice
[ad_1] It’s one of the perplexing mysteries of the Covid pandemic: Where did Omicron emerge from, almost one year ago? The fast-moving, extremely contagious variant arrived just after Thanksgiving 2021,…
The World Is Drowning in Plastic. Here’s How It All Started
[ad_1] In the early 2010s, brands began phasing out the plastic microbeads they’d been adding to toothpaste and face scrubs to boost their scrubbing power. Some of these products contained…
The World Needs More Gigantic Sci-Fi Sea Dams
[ad_1] The figures might not add up now, but the amount of untapped energy available ought to be hard to ignore. Coles and his colleagues found that tidal stream power…
After Hurricane Ian’s Floods, the Flesh-Eating Bacteria
[ad_1] In September, Hurricane Ian smashed into the southwest coast of Florida, bringing with it a storm surge that reached 13 feet in the coastal town of Fort Myers. Warm,…
Sustainable Farming Has an Unlikely Ally: Satellites
[ad_1] The race to remove CO2 from our atmosphere is on. In an effort to draw down carbon at a meaningful scale, people are looking to the ground. The top…
What the Soup-Throwing Climate Activists Got Right
[ad_1] Some people have argued that the stunt discredited the wider climate movement. I don’t buy that for a second. Instead, I suspect it is far more likely to produce…
War Is an Ecological Disaster—but Ukraine Can Build Back Greener
[ad_1] Wartime contamination is happening indirectly as well, Denisov says. During normal operations, coal mines in Donbas, for instance, have to pump water out to keep from flooding. But when…
Why India’s Capital Is Teeming With Mosquitoes
[ad_1] Delhi’s surge of Culex mosquitoes comes at a time when public health officials are declaring notable victories against other kinds of mosquitoes, including the Anopheles genus that transmits malaria.…
Gas Drilling Is Disrupting Animal Migration
[ad_1] In general, it’s surprising how little ecologists know about why large animals choose their migration paths. The motivations for moving are obvious, and include things like food, water, and…
Wildfire Smoke May Carry Deadly Fungi Long Distances
[ad_1] Glowing red skies and bitter ash-laden air are increasingly common across much of the US as the warming climate fuels vast wildfires. For years now, researchers have understood that…
US Cities Are Recycling Trees and Poop to Make Compost
[ad_1] And tree waste isn’t the only unwanted product that can be used to make this compost. Cities could also nourish their trees with a little assistance from their human…
Climate Change Is Burying Archaeological Sites Under Tons of Sand
[ad_1] The Nizari garrison at Gird Castle resisted the Mongol horde of Hulagu Khan for 17 years before surrendering in December 1270. The fortress rose 300 meters above the surrounding…