Latest Environment Stories
NASA is Building a ‘Solar Shield’ to Protect Power Grids from Space Weather
Bees Solve Hard Computing Problems Faster Than Supercomputers
Office Rice Paddy Turns Tokyo Salarymen into Urban Farmers
Video: Chinese Vending Machine Sells Live Hairy Crabs
GPS Chips Installed in Endangered Rhinos’ Horns To Combat Poaching
Six Months After The Leak, We Survey The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Up Close
A Prototype Greenhouse Demonstrates the Future of Farming on the Moon
Racing to Save Bats From Catastrophic Extinction, Biologists Turn to New Tools
Life On the Edge: Four Visions For Inhabiting a World Transformed By Climate Change
Archive Gallery: Science Fights World Hunger
Humpback Whale Makes The Longest Documented Mammal Journey With a 6,200-Mile Swim
This Picture of a Mosquito Heart Is The Year’s Best Microphotograph
How to Clean Up Hungary’s 16-Square-Mile Toxic Mess
Giant Undersea Network Will Bring Offshore Wind Power to East Coast, With Google Investment
Planned Portuguese Eco-City Is Controlled By A Central Computer Brain
World’s First Carbon-Neutral Convention Center Opens
Instant Expert: The Drama and Controversy of Fracking
How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature’s Toughest Fiber
U.S. Military Aims to Use 50 Percent Renewable Energy Within Ten Years
How the Empire State Building Is Pioneering the Future of Energy Efficiency
First Complete Census of Marine Life Catalogs Yeti Crab, Darth Vader Jelly, and 6,000 More
Solar Wind Could Replace Solar, Wind as Renewable Energy Source
The Most Ambitious Weather Experiment: a 1,000-Square-Mile Tornado Trap
Enviropig: A Bioengineered Pig That Excretes Fewer Pollutants
130 Feet Above the Amazon Rainforest, Scientists Sample the Last Pristine Air on Earth
Secretary Clinton’s Clean Stove Initiative Aims to Cut Carbon-Filled Cooking Smoke Worldwide
This Week, FDA Considers Genetically Engineered Salmon for Human Consumption
Silicon Carbide Sensors, Resistant to 1,600-Degree Heat, Could Monitor Conditions Inside Volcanoes
In Sweet Breakthrough, Scientists Led By Makers of M&Ms Sequence the Chocolate Genome
The Green Dream: Hard-Won Advice From a Proud and Exhausted Green Builder
Dog Poo Powers a Streetlight In Massachusetts Park
Warmth of Human Bodies Waiting Below Ground for Paris Metro Will Heat New Apartment Complex
Swedish Researchers Harness Green Goo to Create Solar Cells from Jellyfish
Development of Tiny Thorium Reactors Could Wean the World Off Oil In Just Five Years
Electricity Out of Thin Air Could Be The Next Big Power Source
Autonomous Swarming Robots Can Skim Sea Surface, Collecting Oil As A Team
Bacteria Have Eaten Giant Gulf Oil Plume, New Study Says
Russian Seed Bank, Saved During WWII, Fights to Save Land From Developers
Newly Discovered Underwater Oil Plume Paints a Complex Picture of Gulf Leak Aftermath
Sensor Networks in Buildings Could Use AC Ducts as Huge, Building-Wide Antennas
Judge Bans Future Plantings of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Throwing Nation’s Sugar Supply into Doubt
RFID Chips Can Be Made of Wood, to Tag Trees Without Adulterating the Timber
Grid Could Meet Sudden Energy Demands By Storing Power As Liquid Oxygen
Particle Accelerators Could Be Used to Produce Energy (and Plutonium)
DoE Invests In First Flywheel Power-Storage Plant
Researchers Use Atomic Force Microscopy to Analyze Deep-Sea Mystery Molecules
Islands of Garbage, Washed In By Rain, Threaten to Overrun China’s Three Gorges Dam
Reducing Soot Might Be Shortcut to Reverse Climate Change, New Study Says
Bio-Scaffold Regenerates Rabbit Joints In Vivo While the Rabbits Run
How Pharmaceutical Companies Turn Genetically Modified Livestock Into Drug Factories
Mouse Grimace Scale Measures the Agony of Lab Animals
A Slick Fix: Oil-Eating Robots Could Mop Up Ocean Disasters
Toilet Tech: A Power Generator Turns Falling Wastewater Into Electricity
Whitening Cities’ Roofs Is Environmental Equivalent of Taking 300 Million Cars Off the Road, DoE Study Says
Great White Sharks Text Their Whereabouts, For Science and Swimmer Safety
Seasoning Livestock Feed With Curry Spices Cuts Methane Emissions 40 Percent
Vibration-Powered AA Battery Charges Up When You Shake It
DOE Researchers Take Major Stride Towards Creating Room-Temperature Superconductors
One Man’s Giant Pacific Garbage Patch Is Another’s Beautiful Island Nation
Can Plants Think?
London Builds an Insect Hotel to Keep Helpful Bugs in Residence
Seven Big-Thinking Proposals For Dealing With Nuclear Waste
Infrared Maps Give Belgian Homeowners a Bird’s-Eye View of Their Houses’ Energy Efficiency
Environmental Visionaries: The Solar Roadrunner