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Jason Gates spends a lot of his time thinking about trash, and how we can generate less of it.

With another month logged and put on the record books, we have another month in which only power from renewable energy sources was added to the US electricity grid — 100% of new power capacity was from renewables

Thirty-one species were declared extinct in the latest Red List — but it's not all bad news. Several species, including the European bison, have bee

A new sort of environmental offset, the credits developed by GreenCollar go toward helping improve water quality near the Great Barrier Reef.

The city Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has completed construction of 170 specially designed curbside rain gardens and infiltration basins to

A sweeping health and climate change report was published in medical journal The Lancet. The report outlines the ways in which global warming has already led to a rise in heat-related deaths and risks from climate-related disasters.

The first lab-grown, or cultured, meat product has been given the green light to be sold for human consumption. In the landmark approval, regulators in Singapore granted Just, a San Francisco–based startup, the right to sell cultured chicken—in the form of chicken nuggets—to the public.  Just had been working with the regulators for the past…

The former secretary of state is a diplomatic heavyweight who helped push through the Paris climate agreement.

Climate pollution will simply rebound with the economy, unless we make dramatic shifts in our policies and practices.

Exclusive: Researchers say Covid-19 hiatus is moment to tackle elite ‘super emitters’

To make a real impact on mitigating climate change, companies must look beyond their operations and purchased electricity and begin to analyze their supply chain emissions, experts say.

Scientists are finding ever more promising “caloric materials,” which undergo big temperature changes when placed under pressure, strain or near magnetic and electric fields.

The climate change portion of the president-elect’s transition plan also recommends research and development funding for batteries, renewable hydrogen and advanced nuclear.

Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations, transforming global agriculture and remaking the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.

Why are conservatives objecting to Milton Friedman's very conservative idea?

Increasing summer temperatures are proving a menace to butter, chocolates, and baked Alaska.

The president-elect is stacking his economic team with climate hawks, and the U.S. business community would be wise to back an upcoming Biden climate plan.

The approval for a U.S. start-up’s “cultured chicken” product is a small victory for the nascent laboratory meat industry. Less clear is whether other countries will follow.

Since Hurricane Maria blasted Puerto Rico in September 2017 and destroyed the island’s electrical infrastructure, it has become a hotspot for microgrids — localized grids that can insulate businesses from power failures.

You can pay anything from a little to a lot in the quest to combat the climate crisis.

The coronavirus pandemic shines a searing spotlight on everything that's wrong with Black Friday.

Switzerland will soon vote to hold any company headquartered in the country legally responsible for human rights and environmental violations in their supply chain.

Mapua University's Carvey Maigue was recognized as a runner-up in the James Dyson Award 2020 for the system.

Reengineering Life is a series from Future Human about the astonishing ways genetic technology is changing humanity and the world around us. If we want to survive as the planet gets hotter, the…

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he was "encouraged" by a joint declaration on sustainable finance by the world's development banks, but that more was needed.