This Startup Fights Climate Change By Growing Bricks
PBS News Hour Building a cleaner environment — literally. Although bricks may be beautiful, durable, long lasting, and totally trendy at the moment — think upscale urban lofts and startup offices complete with visible ventilation…
The Ocean’s Uranium Could Power Earth For The Next 13,000 Years
So why aren’t we using it? With the climate change clock ticking towards disaster, scientists have begun looking toward a resource that covers 70% of the Earth’s surface: the ocean. While some…
Could Prehistoric Bugs Thaw And Kill Us All?
photo: ‘Jurassic Park’/design: Antonio Manaligod for Dose ‘Jurassic Park’s’ mosquito DNA may pose real-life dangers. Our Movie Mythbusters series answers the age-old question, “Okay, but could that actually happen in real life?”…
China’s Vertical Forests Are All Kinds Of Awesome
Stefano Boeri Architetti More vegetation = cleaner air. Simple as that. As the spaces where we live and work become more vertical, it makes sense that the natural world should, too. That…
This Is Your Future Suburb — And It Floats
This Is Your Future Suburb — And It Floats Live like the Jetsons, if the Jetsons vacationed in Atlantis. Jet Capsule has set seen the suburbs of the future, and apparently they’re shiny,…
What US Cities Would Look Like If They Polluted Like China
The Clean Air Act saved us from a smog-filled fate. Save on Energy created these stunning visualizations to show what US cities might look like if federal lawmakers hadn’t passed…
We Finally Did Something Good For The Environment!
Milan Stojanovic/Getty Congrats, Earth, on 4 million kilometers of shrinkage. As the world seems to slide irrevocably towards apocalypse, the brains over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) finally…
Bill Nye Explains Global Warming, Just In Case Anyone Still Has Doubts
asapSCIENCE Bill Nye Explains Climate Change, Just In Case Anyone Still Has Doubts Thanks, science guy! As grown-up, sophisticated adults, we all read…right? Like, important scientific stuff that makes us better citizens…
Scientists Think We’ve Moved The Earth Into A New, Pollution-Induced Epoch
It’s called the Anthropocene, and we should be ashamed. The Earth’s geological periods date back 540 million years, so in the grand scheme of things the Holocene — the current epoch of the…
The Apocalypse Is Here: There’s About To Be A Global Coffee Shortage
Getty And it might be happening sooner than you think. Last week we learned that the future of bananas is in danger. This week, we’re handed even worse news: The fate of…
