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A team of MIT engineers claims to have built a carbon capture system that could remove carbon dioxide from the environment at an industrial scale.

MIT Scientists Say They Found a New Way to Scrub Atmospheric CO2

By Dan Robitzski

A Pentagon report predicts that American infrastructure and the U.S. military could collapse within 20 years due to the ravages of climate change.

Pentagon Report Predicts Collapse of US Military Within 20 Years

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientist Andrew McAfee argues that capitalism can prevent food and commodity shortages even in the face of worsened climate change.

MIT Scientist: Capitalism Will Solve Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A visit to the seafloor at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill revealed a nightmarish landscape populated by gruesome, tumor-filled sea life.

The Deepwater Horizon Spill Created Horrific Mutant Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

Eastern Australia is approaching Day Zero. Some towns have already run out of water, and several more probably will before the year's end.

Australia Is Running out of Drinking Water

By Dan Robitzski

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government has suggested it may dump contaminated water from the Fukushima power plant into the ocean, but experts say it's too dangerous.

Experts: Fukushima Water Is Too Dangerous to Dump Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

A New Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees

A New Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees

By Dan Robitzski

People from the Russian town Kiselyovsk want to gain entry to Canada as environmental refugees. Coal mining operations in their town have made it unlivable.

Residents Are Trying to Flee Russian Town Where Snow Turned Black

By Dan Robitzski

With the Amazon Rainforest burning away and sequestered carbon being released, the global environment is rapidly approaching the point of no return.

Scientists Warn Of “Cascading System Collapse” in Amazon Rainforest

By Dan Robitzski

Microplastic has been found in rainwater samples in the Rocky Mountains, suggesting that plastic pollution has spread much farther than expected.

Rain Clouds Are Dropping Microplastic on the Rocky Mountains

By Dan Robitzski

In three years, the Fukushima nuclear power plant will run out of space to store contaminated water, pushing officials to quicjly assemble a new plan.

In Three Years, Fukushima Could Overflow With Radioactive Water

By Dan Robitzski

If global temperatures reach two degrees Celsius about pre-industrial levels, 30,000 additional people will die in Chinese cities every year.

A Half-Degree Temperature Rise Will Kill 30,000 in China Per Year

By Dan Robitzski

A letter signed by 24 prominent scientists called on the U.N. to declare wartime destruction of the environment a war crime.

Scientists: Harming the Environment Should Be a War Crime

By Dan Robitzski

Contrails given off by airplanes contribute more to global warming than we thought. By 2050, they'll warm the planet twice as much as the plane's emissions.

Airplane Contrails Might Actually be a Problem for the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

If our climate crisis continues unchecked, the global poor will face the greatest burden while the rich pay to escape the problem altogether.

“Climate Apartheid” Is Imminent. Only the Rich Will Survive.

By Dan Robitzski

Sydney became the first major Australian city to declare a state of emergency to prevent the worst effects of climate change on Monday.

Sydney Is in a State of Emergency to Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this month, researchers from Australia's Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration published research containing a dire warning: prevent and reverse climate change or face the end of human civilization as we know it.

Doomsday Report Author: Earth’s Leaders Have Failed

By Dan Robitzski

As global temperatures rise, the Arctic is melting away, releasing more greenhouse gases and revealing previously-frozen nuclear waste and diseases.

The Melting Arctic Is Releasing Poison, Disease and Nuclear Waste

By Dan Robitzski

A new report finds that the U.S. military is the single largest producer of greenhouse gasses in the world, emitting more carbon than several countries.

The War on Terror is Murdering the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

An engineer found a way to turn juiced cactus leaves into a feasible substitute for plastic, and she wants to make biodegradable cutlery.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Make Fake, Biodegradable Plastic From Cactus Juice

By Dan Robitzski

A robot sloth is expected to hang out in forest canopies with real slothes for months at a time, clinging to wires and tracking the environment.

Scientists Built a Robot Sloth to Study Other Sloths

By Dan Robitzski

As the planet heats up, climate change has melted the snow off of Mt. Everest, revealing the remains of long-dead climbers.

Climate Change Is Thawing out the Corpses on Mt. Everest

By Dan Robitzski

Plastic pollutants in the ocean can stunt the growth of a certain bacteria responsible for pumping the atmosphere full of oxygen, according to a new study.

Plastic Is Killing the Bacteria That Make 10% of Earth’s Oxygen

By Dan Robitzski

The fast-food chain Del Taco just announced a new partnership with Beyond Meats to start selling plant-based meat alternatives starting April 25.

Taco Bell Competitor Embraces Plant-Based “Meat” in its Tacos

By Dan Robitzski

Right now there are 45 experimental projects in Europe working to generate hydrogen fuel using renewable sources of electricity.

Europe Is Stockpiling Wind Energy by Converting It to Hydrogen

By Dan Robitzski

Listen Up, Entrepreneurs: It’s Time to Launch Your Clean Water Solution

Listen Up, Entrepreneurs: It’s Time to Launch Your Clean Water Solution

By Rachelle Dragani

The EU voted on Wednesday to support plans for the elimination of most uses of single-use plastic, including cutlery, straws, and plastic plates.

The EU Approved a Ban on Single-Use Plastics

By Victor Tangermann

First noticed in 2016, the Australian government recently confirmed the first mammalian extinction that was caused by human-induced climate change.

Climate Change Just Wiped out Its First Mammal

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that dimming sunlight through geoengineering, if done moderately, could lessen the effects of climate change with few side effects.

New Research: Dimming the Sun Wouldn’t be That Bad

By Dan Robitzski

When the Green New Deal was published, many criticized its deliberate exclusion of nuclear energy. Nuclear fusion doesn't exist yet, but may someday help.

The Problem With AOC’s Green New Deal: It Ignores Fusion Power

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis shows that there's only a one-in-a-million chance that climate change could have been caused by anything other than humanity.

Scientists Are 99.9999 Percent Sure Humans Caused Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

New research explains the role of cloud cover in climate change. If we keep burning fossil fuels, the clouds will go away and climate change will worsen.

Climate Change Is Eliminating Clouds. Without Them, Earth Burns

By Dan Robitzski

The senators and representatives who oppose the Green New Deal have accepted several times more fossil fuel money than its supporters.

Senators Opposing Green New Deal Are Drowning in Fossil Fuel Cash

By Dan Robitzski

The University of Cambridge has launched a new center focused on finding ways to use AI to address problems with the environment.

Cambridge: AI Might Help Us Avoid “Environmental Catastrophe”

By Kristin Houser

A robot just physically examined the radioactive fuel at the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactor. It's the first step toward an ongoing cleanup mission.

Japan Sends Robot Into the Nuclear Hell of the Fukushima Reactor

By Dan Robitzski

An ambitious new analysis found that there's space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees — a number that would absorb more carbon than human emissions.

Research: Planting Trillions of Trees Could Cancel Out CO2 Emissions

By Jon Christian

Los Angeles Axes Plan For Billions of Dollars In Fossil Fuel Investments

Los Angeles Axes Plan For Billions of Dollars In Fossil Fuel Investments

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at Purdue University say a new chemical technique technique turns waste plastic back into useful polymers — or even clean fuel.

New Chemistry Technique Turns Waste Plastic Into Clean Fuel

By Jon Christian

The resolution for the Green New Deal was posted online. It includes ambitious plans to clean up the U.S. economy by 2030, but lacks specific proposals.

“Green New Deal” Calls for a Zero-Emission America by 2030

By Dan Robitzski

New Tech That Sucks Carbon From Chimneys Has “Tremendous Potential”

New Tech That Sucks Carbon From Chimneys Has “Tremendous Potential”

By Victor Tangermann

According to CDP, an organization that grades corporations on their environmental impact, Apple expects to become more valuable as climate change worsens.

Apple Expects to Benefit From Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

New research lends concrete evidence to something that many suspected was true: climate change is increasing global conflict and migration.

New Research: Climate Change Causes Migration and Conflict

By Dan Robitzski

A plastic part broke off the Ocean Cleanup Project's device, which was intended to capture ocean plastic. But the project's CEO remains undeterred.

Plastic Part Breaks Off Device Intended to Capture Ocean Plastic

By Jon Christian

Three out of every ten new cars sold in Norway last year were electric, which is the highest percentage in the world by a long shot.

Advanced Transport

Nearly a Third of Norway’s 2018 New Car Sales Were Electric

By Dan Robitzski

A new FDA-approved food coating can double a vegetable's shelf life. It may help reduce the $2 trillion cost and carbon emissions of food waste.

Edible Coating Can Keep Food Fresh Longer and Cut Down on Waste

By Dan Robitzski

Last Friday, 75 coast redwood saplings found their new home in San Francisco's Presidio national park. All of them are clones of ancient redwood stumps.

Scientists Planted Clones of Ancient Super-Tall Redwoods

By Dan Robitzski

The European Union just proposed a new set of strategies to become carbon neutral by 2050. But that might not be soon enough.

The EU Just Announced a Plan To Go Carbon Neutral

By Dan Robitzski

A new attempt to restore the Great Barrier Reef involves capturing sperm and egg cells, fertilizing them, and implanting the new coral back into the reef.

To Save The Great Barrier Reef, Scientists Are Hoarding Coral Sperm

By Dan Robitzski

Plant-based meats are more impressive and convincing than ever. But if they're going to save the environment, governments need to help.

Unless Governments Get Involved, Plant-Based Meat Won’t Take Off

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that those who are given more money become greedier and refuse to help fight climate change. The poor are left on their own.

To Fight Climate Change, The Poor Would Spend More Than The Rich

By Dan Robitzski

Palau will ban all coral reef-damaging sunscreens by 2020. It's a small but important drop in the bucket if we want to stop bleaching.

A Sunscreen Ban Won’t Save the Coral Reefs, but It’s a Good Start

By Dan Robitzski

Clean coal doesn't exist, but burning it in as clean a way as possible could give us more time to adopt clean, renewable energy around the world.

Tweaking Coal Plant Emissions Could Slow Down Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A Spanish company has figured out how to turn raw sewage into clean energy in the form of a coal-like fuel that burns without giving off carbon dioxide.

Clean Coal Startup Turns Human Waste Into Earth-Friendly Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

A Toronto startup figured out how to get bacteria to turn food waste into biodegradable plastics. If it scales, it could prevent loads of methane emissions.

These Bacteria Digest Food Waste Into Biodegradable Plastic

By Dan Robitzski

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Scientists: The Government Should Invest in Carbon Capture Now

By Dan Robitzski

New York State says that Exxon Mobile played down the risks of Climate Change

New York Sues Exxon Mobil Over Climate Change Deception

By Dan Robitzski

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Microplastics Are Already in Our Bodies, According to a New Study

By Dan Robitzski

World Governments Want to Slice Up Antarctica When a Scientific Treaty Lifts

World Governments Want to Slice Up Antarctica When a Scientific Treaty Lifts

By Kristin Houser

Scientists Used CRISPR to Domesticate This Delicate Fruit

Scientists Used CRISPR to Domesticate This Delicate Fruit

By Dan Robitzski

Electric Cars Are Too Important For Elon Musk to Put at Risk

Electric Cars Are Too Important For Elon Musk to Put at Risk

By Dan Robitzski

The Digest: Starbucks Is Replacing Plastic Straws With “Sippy Cups” for Adults

The Digest: Starbucks Is Replacing Plastic Straws With “Sippy Cups” for Adults

By Kristin Houser

Brain-Based Circuitry Just Made Artificial Intelligence A Whole Lot Faster

Brain-Based Circuitry Just Made Artificial Intelligence A Whole Lot Faster

By Dan Robitzski