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A growing fleet of electric vehicles could unlock a cheaper, cleaner alternative to fossil-fuel power plants—without building new infrastructure.
Parametric insurance, once a niche tool for property owners, is now underwriting coral reefs. It’s efficient, innovative—and unsettling.
Phytomining promises to extract metals for electric vehicles—not with drills and dynamite but with daisies, grasses, and biology.
Inspired by the filter feeding mechanisms of basking sharks and manta rays, a startup called Cleanr has developed a filter that traps over 90% of microplastics released in each wash cycle.
In a lab outside Boulder Colorado, engineers are reinventing one of the dirtiest industrial processes on Earth—by swapping fire for modern alchemy.
Light pollution is making many birds sing nearly an hour longer at dawn or dusk; whether that is helpful or harmful for the birds is an open question.
By simulating a million traffic scenarios, researchers found that apps guiding vehicle speeds at intersections could cut emissions at a scale rivaling entire nations.
Millions of toxic e-cig butts are tossed every day. A new study shows they can be recycled into asphalt pellets that boost road durability and cut carbon.
Scientists have engineered a living, carbon-capturing material that can be shaped by 3D printing and hardened over time through biological growth.