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Person holding large pile of colorful clothes close-up on white background

What to do with clothes you can’t donate

By Debbie Wolfe

Little baby and stack of diapers on bed, closeup

Japan makes breakthrough in dirty diaper recycling

Detail view of stacked whisky and wine wooden barrels in vintage style

Mushy bourbon sludge recycled into battery electrodes

a row of collared t-shirts in rainbow order. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple

Walmart and H&M are trying to turn carbon dioxide into clothes

By Mack DeGeurin

a small black car with a number 4 on it

British man powers DIY car with discarded vapes

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of non-dairy cheese made with rice proteins in dish

Rice cheese may be the next big thing

An illustration symbolizes new battery technology: Proteins (red) hold tiny clusters of metal (silver). Each yellow ball in the structures at center represents a single atom of nickel or iron. Credit: Maher El-Kady / UCLA

Thomas Edison’s failed rechargeable battery may get a second life

Large group of used dirty sleeping mattresses. Abandoned in wild landfill

Fungi help turn old mattresses into insulation

Hobart, Tasmania - December 27 2016: road side warning sign for Tasmanian kangaroo, tasmanian devil and echidna wildlife

Roadkill is a surprising and untapped source for scientists

Funeral urn on table next to four lit candles

80% of Americans may opt for cremation by 2045

Pouring whiskey into glass from bottle near wooden barrel on table

Scottish distillery wants to bottle whisky in aluminum, not glass

Close up of man's hands reaching into box of apples at orchard

Test your apple farming skills with this free video game

a hand squeezes a fish-shaped soy sauce container as brown droplets come out of it

Plastic-free soy sauce container biodegrades in 4 weeks

By Mack DeGeurin

Pint of beer next to a cheeseburger

Beer waste helps lab-grown meat taste meatier

Anti-icing chemicals in winter season. Street treated with technical salt or de-icing chemicals, closeup view. Effective tool to fight ice on surfaces. Rock salt on road.

Stop using so much sidewalk salt

By Alisha McDarris

a global density map of the world's buildings

Browse a 3D map of the world’s 2.75 billion buildings

A person in a blue jacket holds a labeled glass jar filled with grain seeds while standing in a narrow aisle of a genebank. The room is filled from floor to ceiling with shelves holding hundreds of similar jars for long-term storage.

The seed vaults that could save humanity

Water flowing through the Hamlin Lake Dam in Ludington Michigan.

2,500 ‘high-risk’ U.S. dams are sinking into the ground

A thin sheet of plastic covered in transparent MOCHI film

Bubble wrap-like material could help insulate glass windows

Electric plane flying over green mountains

Air New Zealand tests a new generation of electric planes