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Where does your paper come from? The good and the bad news.
Sustainability

Where does your paper come from? The good and the bad news.

By Shaena Montanari

Your lost shipment could be trashing a beach thousands of miles away
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Your lost shipment could be trashing a beach thousands of miles away

By Shaena Montanari

The real story behind the Biden burger-ban rumor
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The real story behind the Biden burger-ban rumor

By Sara Kiley Watson

A quarter of new invasive species were spotted by everyday citizen-scientists
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A quarter of new invasive species were spotted by everyday citizen-scientists

By Shaena Montanari

Crushed single-use plastic water bottle in hand.
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Adding enzymes to bioplastics can make them disappear

By Shaena Montanari

Super-white paint could cut air conditioning bills by 80 percent
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Super-white paint could cut air conditioning bills by 80 percent

By Shaena Montanari

Bowling lane and bowling pin on sea green background
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Meet the matchmaker pairing commercial waste with companies ready to reuse it

By Tom Vanderbilt

Colorful cleaning products on blank background.
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Are your cleaning products really green? Here’s how to tell.

By Shaena Montanari

Host a sustainable affair with these environmentally-friendly tips
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Host a sustainable affair with these environmentally-friendly tips

By Sara Kiley Watson

Construction workers install solar panles.
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How Biden’s jobs plan will be put to work for the environment

By Emily Cerf

Two bamboo toothbrushes, one with tan bristles and one with blue bristles, on a white towel.
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How to safely turn your old toothbrush into a household cleaning tool

By John Kennedy

Wine being poired into glasses overlooking natural landscape.
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Is your wine really sustainable? Here’s how to tell.

By Shaena Montanari

Clean glass of filtered water
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Simple filters made from conifer trees could have a huge impact on the clean water crisis

By Shaena Montanari

Close up of a recycle garbage bin logo at Pershing Square in Los Angeles, CA
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Weird things you didn’t know you could recycle

By Lexi Krupp

Stacks of logs against skyline.
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Burning wood pellets won’t help us fight climate change

By Shaena Montanari

Woman applying lotion in mirror
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Are ‘clean’ cosmetics better for us than other beauty products?

By Sara Kiley Watson

Urban city square with park and planted trees.
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Can planting more trees keep cities from heating up?

By Shaena Montanari

Plastic water bottles and aluminum soda cans in a bin
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Will we ever be able to recycle all our plastic?

By Candice Wang

Woman searching through rack of vintage second-hand thrift clothing.
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Thrift shopping is an environmental and ethical trap

By Sara Kiley Watson

Aurora sky over icy winter forest at night
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A geomagnetic curveball 42,000 years ago changed our planet forever

By Sara Kiley Watson

Seville orange on wood
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These oranges are for a lot more than juicing

By Carlos C. Olaechea/Saveur

rocky outcropping in very blue tropical waters
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Citizens of Mauritius are cleaning up a major oil spill themselves

By Hannah Seo

cows in a pasture
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Gene-edited cows could make meat more sustainable. But would people eat it?

By Dyllan Furness/Undark

A blue agave plant
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Five burning questions about tequila, answered

By Purbita Saha

Hiking gear
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Save money and protect the environment by repurposing your old outdoor gear

By Alisha McDarris

Captain Jake Hiles and 708-pound tuna that is the pending new state Virginia record.
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Anglers in Virginia reeled in a 700-pound tuna, then threw a dinner party

By Doug Howlett/Field & Stream

Fans at a giant concert
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How musicians like Radiohead and Massive Attack are making their tours less stressful on the environment

By Eleanor Cummins

philadelphia eagles' football field
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The Philadelphia Eagles are driving the NFL toward a greener future

By Eleanor Cummins

Boy Changes Temperature On Central Heating Thermostat Control Using Mobile Phone App
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It’s not easy being green, but it doesn’t have to be expensive

By Dan Seitz

couple building an artificial christmas tree
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Your Christmas tree’s environmental impact has nothing to do with whether it’s real or fake

By Bert Cregg/The Conversation

A carbon-neutral burger? It’s not impossible.
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A carbon-neutral burger? It’s not impossible.

By Ula Chrobak

A guide to ensuring your Diwali festivities keep the Earth happy, too
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A guide to ensuring your Diwali festivities keep the Earth happy, too

By Purbita Saha

A guide to eco-friendly travel
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A guide to eco-friendly travel

By Dan Seitz

What’s the best straw?
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What’s the best straw?

By Eleanor Cummins

What kind of reusable bag is best for the planet?
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What kind of reusable bag is best for the planet?

By Ula Chrobak

We need a greener way to die
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We need a greener way to die

By Nicole Wetsman

These sandals replace petroleum with sugarcane. How smug can I be about wearing them?
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These sandals replace petroleum with sugarcane. How smug can I be about wearing them?

By Rob Verger

11 easy ways you can help save the planet this Earth Day
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11 easy ways you can help save the planet this Earth Day

By Rachel Feltman

People are spending more time at home.
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Staying in is good for the environment

By Marlene Cimons

anesthesia
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Hospitals are scrambling to solve their air pollution issue

By Nicole Wetsman

ford factory roof
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Companies are realizing that renewable energy is good for business

By Ellen Airhart

This smart window uses electricity to quickly change from clear to dark
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This smart window uses electricity to quickly change from clear to dark

By Rob Verger

Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change
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Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

A blue pipe that connects a bathroom, sewage separation tanks, a sewage mixing tank, a filtration machine, a natural body of water, and a water filtration plant, showing the cycle of making sewage drinkable.
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How to make sewage drinkable

By Sara Chodosh

We’re Catching Millions Of Tons More Fish Each Year Than We Report
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We’re Catching Millions Of Tons More Fish Each Year Than We Report

By Mary Beth Griggs

Mealworms Eating Styrofoam
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Mealworms Can Happily And Safely Eat Styrofoam

By Mary Beth Griggs

6 Things You Should Know About Lab Diamonds
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6 Things You Should Know About Lab Diamonds

By Rebecca Harrington

Saving The Planet Could Save Your Life
Sustainability

Saving The Planet Could Save Your Life

By Mary Beth Griggs

8 Steps To Sustainable Meat And Milk
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8 Steps To Sustainable Meat And Milk

By Emily Gertz

The Garbage Man
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The Garbage Man

How a Lab of College Students Invented the World’s Best Home Blast-Chiller
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How a Lab of College Students Invented the World’s Best Home Blast-Chiller

By Colin Lecher

How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America
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How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America

By Clay Dillow

Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights
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Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights

By Julie Beck

A man in blue Popular Science coveralls holding a dumbbell made out of old CDs, pointing at the camera, and yelling.
Sustainability

PopSci 5-Minute Project video: CD dumbbell

By Popular Science Team