In an effort to mitigate their own carbon emissions from day-to-day operations of their 2006 tour, while raising the public's carbon consciousness, Pearl Jam will donate a total of $100,000 to nine organizations doing innovative work around climate change.
The billionaire Amazon founder announced the creation of his Bezos Earth Fund to fight climate change this week on Instagram.
One of the greatest environmental success stories in history is playing out on the landscapes of the rural West. When wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone and Northern Idaho in the mid-1990s, the ecological ideas of how large predators affected ecosystems, and the conservation policies that could support predator restoration, were mostly theory. Now, ten years […]
The strange disappearance-and immediate reappearance-of a beloved 1-ton boulder in Arizona has been chalked up as a wonderful example of everyday magic.
Their first billboard provided drinking water to a parched and arid region of Peru. Now, The University of Engineering and Technology is cleaning pollution out of the air generated around a construction site.
For the first time in almost 40 years lake sturgeon have spawned in the Detroit River, thanks to an international reef construction effort completed last fall. The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge announced Tuesday that the joint project between Canadians and Americans had succeeded in providing the perfect place for the threatened fish to lay eggs.
The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One fungus, carried home recently by a group from Yale University, appears to be quite happy eating plastic in airless landfills.
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When Melbourne, Australia gave its trees email addresses so residents could report problems with them, people started writing notes to the trees instead.
This first-of-its-kind study zeroed in on the optimal amount of time the average person could spend in contact with nature in order to enjoy its benefits.
Poop in, clean water out. Bill Gates has invested more than three million dollars on behalf of the 2.6 billion people around the world who don't have access to modern toilets. Yesterday, the three winners of his "next-generation toilet prize were announced, showcasing innovative designs that capture and process human waste without piped water, sewer or electrical connections. Even more impressive, the toilet prize-winners all transformed human waste into useful resources, such as energy and water.
Seabin is an industrial scale pool skimmer that can sweep pollution from harbors and marinas before it can reach rivers or oceans.
For the first time since the American Revolution, Atlantic Salmon have spawned in the Connecticut River.
An organic, green revolution, largely unnoticed, is well under way in Cuba -- essentially unprecedented both within the developed and undeveloped world -- establishing a self-sustaining system of agriculture that by necessity is essentially organic.
If you're a gardener living in Minnesota, the state may soon reimburse you for planting bee-friendly plants on your property.
After reading an article in the local newspaper, Cassandra Lin discovered that many residents could not afford to heat their homes. Inspired to do something, she formed a team of seventh graders to recycle waste cooking oil and turn it into biofuel for distribution to needy families. They collected 36,000 gallons in one year.
A Dutch artist has built the world's largest portable air purifier that turns smog into jewelry while giving people a breath of fresh air.
Car lovers will clamor for this new innovation by Dutch scientists at TNO Research: a polymer finish that, to the car, is like the human skin, a protective layer with the capability to ‘repair' itself after a cut or a bruise. Through the application of hot air to the spot where the car has been scratched, the finish liquefies and spreads itself out like new again. The re-mendable polymer finish is expected to be introduced onto the market in the near future.
If you're a fan of bird watching, then you are apparently less likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, or stress.
Led by the Smithsonian Institution, zoos in the US, Panama and Mexico are reenergizing the effort to save frogs from a new fungus blamed for the death of dozens of species.
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