Turning petrochemical plants off and on again requires flaring and other large sources of pollution.
Like a cold-blooded animal—a lizard or a snake—the petrochemical hub that is the state of Texas…
Global study shows blazes diminish forest density and tree size, making woods likely to sequester less carbon.
More fierce and frequent fires are reducing forest density and tree size and may damage…
Thousands of homes could soon be heated by human waste in a first-of-its-kind “poo-power” system.
Thames Water plans to use excess heat recovered from the sewage treatment process to warm more than…
Technological advances have transformed the solar energy industry in recent years. Solar panels are significantly more efficient, producing more power in the same amount of space. Meanwhile,…
Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, warns the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first World Report on Hearing, released…
An initial snapshot of countries’ latest carbon reduction promises, released Friday by the United Nations climate secretariat, shows global greenhouse gas emissions on track to fall just 0.5% between…
Bitcoin mining – the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm – is a deeply energy intensive process.
It’s not just the value of bitcoin that has…
Supermarkets are throwing away the equivalent of 190 million meals a year that could be given to the hungry, The Independent reveals today.
The latest data shows that Britain’s top 10 chains are…
The three local authority pension funds with the largest investments in fossil fuels are Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and West Midlands.
Nearly £10bn remains invested in fossil fuel companies…
A petition signed by nearly 65,000 people calls on the Bank of England to ‘cut off the money pipeline’ for fossil fuels.
Campaigners have called on the chancellor Rishi Sunak to use the upcoming …
Collagen is the most plentiful protein in the human body and a major building block of connective tissue found in skin, bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and many other body parts. Most notably,…
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Εmojis, the concise hieroglyphs of modern life, play a growing role in our communication-dependent world, but what does one do when the required image doesn’t yet exist?
The lack…
Texas oil refineries released hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants including benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide into the air as they scrambled to shut down during…
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Most of the world associates recycling with environmentally-friendly. This is because recycling has always been marketed as a lifestyle with all the…
Nzambi Matee is an entrepreneur with an incredible goal -- to turn plastic destined for the landfill into sustainable, strong building material. Her company, Gjenge Makers, uses the plastic waste of…
A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a metal scrapyard in a white, affluent part of town.
Trinity Colón grew up believing everyone…