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A small but growing group of researchers and physicians working to quantify the environmental impact of healthcare—and to reduce that impact without compromising patient care.
Researchers develop a method to make this crucial industrial ingredient 8.5 times faster than nature can — with potential consequences for food security and land savings
The latest research team to tackle the question thinks it is. Their key insight: a lot of current energy use isn’t really contributing to human well-being
Based on a strategy for transporting organs for transplant patients, the method doesn’t ruin food by turning it into solid ice
A team calculated that a decarbonized world could lose 9.5 million fossil fuel jobs—and gain a whopping 17.4 million renewable jobs.
If you want to take out a carbon “loan” (that is, emit more carbon than the 1.5 °C budget allows) you’ll have to pay interest on it
Researchers have now found a way to turn these plastics into foam that can be used for building insulation or flotation devices
The major determinant of the environmental footprint of Internet activities: video, especially high-definition video, a new study reveals.
Taking advantage of bacteria’s voracious appetite for organic materials, an engineering team devised a new twist on microbial fuel cells