Imagine an innocent little beetle plodding across the forest floor, hunting for morsels to feed upon. Aha! It spies a cluster of bivalve leaves, each shiny red on the inside and offering an array of ...

Seaweed aquaculture—the farming of marine macroalgae such as kelp, nori, and wakame—is increasingly viewed as one of the most environmentally sustainable forms of food production, according to ...

One of the world’s most powerful (and overlooked) healthcare settings is the home kitchen. But there’s no need to bring in a professional chef, subscription meal plan, or expensive appliances to ...

The planet isn’t warming evenly—it’s unraveling fastest at the top. In the Arctic, temperatures are rising four times faster than the global average, turning what was once Earth’s frozen stabilizer ...

Whether it is weeding one’s garden, hiking a forest trail, taking recycling to a center, or picking up trash in a waterway, when people interact with nature, they are cultivating their nurturing ...

In Sicily, where citrus groves glow under the shadow of Mount Etna and prickly pear cacti dot the landscape, agricultural waste has long been part of the scenery. Each year, more than a million tons ...

In recent years, thrifting—buying secondhand clothing, furniture, and goods—has shifted from fringe to mainstream behavior in the US and worldwide. A recent report from Capital One Shopping, Thrifting ...

In recent years, the art world has begun a significant shift toward environmental responsibility. Artists, institutions, collectors, and consumers are aligning creativity with elements like reducing ...

What if the world’s clean energy revolution could be powered by its garbage? A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers has unveiled a deceptively simple process that extracts ...

In an interview with Krista Tippett in the On Being podcast, Kimmerer explains: “I was lucky enough to grow up in the fields, in the woods of upstate New York … but disappointed also in that I grew up ...

In the struggle against climate change, it’s easy to wish for some technology—or even magic!—that could remove Earth-warming carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere and turn it into something useful ...

He buys up whole swaths of rainforest to save them from destruction. He partners with legendary Hollywood actors to provide green energy for Indian schools. He campaigns to make the Olympic Games more ...