Earthen clay floors offer healthier, cheaper, and eco-friendly construction method in Uganda Posted July 2, 2025 A cheap, eco-friendly flooring system is helping to improve health and bring down construction costs in Uganda. The clay-based earthen floors use local earth inst…
Using green waste to grow vegetables for those in need Posted June 25, 2025 The City of Greater Geelong is converting the municipality's green waste into compost, which is then used to grow produce at the botanical garden…
World Bee Day: Bees facing new threats, putting our own survival at risk Posted June 18, 2025 Bees are an essential part of our food chain, with more than three-quarters of global crops depending on pollinators. A new report for World Bee …
Amazon launches its first internet satellites to compete against SpaceX’s Starlinks Posted May 29, 2025 Amazon's first batch of internet satellites rocketed into orbit, the latest entry in the mega-constellation market currently dominated by SpaceX's thousands of St…
Global coral bleaching has now hit 84% of ocean’s reefs in biggest-ever event Posted May 27, 2025 Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initia…
Climate change isn’t funny but comedians are using humor to raise awareness of it Posted May 21, 2025 Climate change isn't funny. But more comedians are using humor to bring awareness to it. A university in the U.S. is showing students that laughs can sometimes achieve more than l…
Here’s what to know about nations considering the 1st global tax on emissions for shipping Posted May 11, 2025 Nations are trying to reach an agreement to charge commercial vessels a fee for their emissions in what would effectively be the world’s first global carbon tax. The Internatio…
Plastics are seeping into farm fields, food and eventually human bodies. Can they be stopped? Posted April 24, 2025 Around the world, plastics are finding their way into farm fields—coated over the ground in fertilizer, wrapped around seeds, stretched as tarps to lock in moisture and as plastic…
A mix of science and tradition helps restore relics in China’s Forbidden City Posted April 17, 2025 It's highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: a fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing's Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diff…
Eat grass-fed beef, help the planet? Research says not so simple Posted April 11, 2025 A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef produces no less planet-warming carbon emissions th…