Latest Environment Stories
How It Works: Building a Kilometer-Long Pipe Deep Under the Sea
Enviropig, the Genetically Engineered Eco-Friendly Pork, Is Off the Table
Where Are Henry David Thoreau’s Plants Now?
‘Cyberplasm,’ a Micro-Robot Modeled After the Sea Lamprey, Could Swim Around Inside You
Fossilized Raindrop Dimples Add to Mystery of Ancient Earth’s Warmth
The Denver Zoo’s Poo-Powered Rickshaw Turns Animal Waste into Energy
Electric Animals That Aren’t Eels
Swimming On The Hot Side
Taiwanese Students Use Personal Seismic Sensors to Monitor Earthquakes
The 2012 Heat Wave: “Almost Like Science Fiction”
Climate Experts Weigh In on Our Record Heat Wave
Yes, Deepwater Horizon Oil Did Enter the Food Chain
Meet Robojelly, the Hydrogen-Powered Jellyfish-Shaped Immortal Underwater Surveillance Robot
National Ignition Facility Fires Record-Setting 2-Megajoule Laser
A Taste of Exotic Meats at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner
Too Much Monkey Business Leads to Monkey Vasectomies
Breaking Blades: The Engineering Lab Where Wind-Power Propellers Get Built To Be Snapped
Birds Might Have a Built-In Head-Up Display Overlaying Navigation Data Onto Their Vision
Video: To Kill Predators, Japanese Honeybees Surround Them in a ‘Hot Defensive Bee Ball’
Video: Robot Squirrel Confuses a Snake
Russian and Korean Researchers Will Inject Mammoth DNA Into Elephant Eggs, Resurrecting 10,000-Year-Old Beast
“Designer Electrons” Can Be Custom-Made for Future Devices
An Ocean of Data: Looking for Sunken Treasure in a New Way
Is It Possible to “Brooklynize” Floridian Tap Water? A Bagelmaker Says Yes, A Lawsuit Says No
Lasers Can Be Used to Steer Lightning In Mid-Strike
MIT Laser Fibers Could Be Woven Together to Make 3-D Display Screens
Holey Optochip! The One-Trillion-Bits-Per-Second Chip is Here
Stowaway Seeds Carried By Unwitting Humans Are Colonizing Antarctica
Video: Lego Space Shuttle Lifts Off for the Stratosphere
Japanese Researcher Crafts Violin Strings From the Silk of Three Hundred Spiders
Now Underway: the U.S.’s First Suborbital Balloon Factory
Japanese Home-Levitation System Could Protect Buildings From Earthquakes
Storm Watch: Driven By Warm Air, Massive Tornado Outbreak Forecast for Friday
Could Climate Change Make Mount Everest Unclimbable?
Earth’s Clouds Are Getting Lower, Which Could Be a Good Thing
How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger
Thermoelectric “Power Felt” Fabric Lets You Sit on Your Phone to Power It
The Race For The Next Big Thing In Green Illumination
Russian Scientists Grow Pleistocene-Era Plants From Seeds Buried By Squirrels 30,000 Years Ago
Redesigning the Toilet to Produce Water, Fertilizer, and Energy
Video: Watch Kink Instability Corkscrew a Jet of Super-Hot Argon Gas
World’s Tiniest Chameleons Found in Madagascar
How to Pump Half a Million Gallons of Fuel From a Listing Cruise Liner
Found: The Oldest Animal Ever on Planet Earth
3-D Laser Maps Show How Major Quakes Rend the Earth
Video: Creepiest Mirror Ever Displays Ghostly Animal Heads Mimicking Your Facial Expression
200,000-Year-Old Patch of Seagrass Is the World’s Oldest Living Organism
Video Gallery: The Most Amazing Movies of the Minuscule World
Inside the Brand-New High-Tech Rainbow Warrior
Antarctica’s Frozen Lake Vostok, Isolated for 20 Million Years, Breached By Russian Drills
New Climate Change Culprit: Chilean Man Stealing Glaciers to Put In Cocktails
Paint Your Roof With Working Solar Cells Made from Grass Clippings
Amazonian Rainforest Fungus Eats Polyurethane, Potentially Solving a Big Landfill Problem
FYI: Do Animals Dream?
Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet
Study Shows Females Can Delay the Aging of Sperm Cells for Decades
Building a Vertical Farm in an Old Chicago Meatpacking Plant
The World’s Only Iridescent Mammal Is Blind and Lives Underground
Rainforest Expedition Turns Up 46 New Creatures, Including This Cowboy Frog
New Magnetic Soap Could Clean Oil Spills With No Suds Left Behind
Did Global Warming Destroy My Hometown?
A New Faster Fourier Transform Can Speed One of IT’s Fundamental Algorithms
Metamaterials Can Exert a Whole New Kind of Force
The Northernmost Dish In The World: Tracking Satellites and Dodging Polar Bears