A new investigation by Greenpeace delves into the ongoing environmental devastation caused by our recycling habits.

The Wall Street Journal calls them "homeless" but they look "landless" to me.

There's a good reason why menstrual product manufacturers don't want to reveal their ingredient lists.

Can the social media platform be blamed for the surge in camera-happy tourists?

One smartphone user makes a case for using old-fashioned items like alarm clocks and newspapers.

E-bikers use their bikes more, go longer distances, and often substitute it for driving or transit.

Tata kills the world’s cheapest car that nobody wanted.

Welcome to my personal dairy dilemma and the weird, convoluted thoughts that keep me up at night.

A new investigative report from Viva! reveals that conditions for laying hens are as hellish and squalid as ever, even if they're labelled free-range.

With an increase in salmonella cases this year, health officials are pointing the finger at hobby farmers, which isn't entirely fair.

A few intrepid film makers went to check it out. Their responses were not exactly uniform.

Dr. David Jenkins is the man who came up with the glycemic index. His own diet may surprise you.

Perfect idea for spaces with poor air quality: a multi-functional hanging lamp that grows air-purifying plants.

Just because garment workers are desperate doesn't mean we should exploit them.

Why did Facebook pay $1 billion for Instagram and what can the environmental movement learn from this? It's all about emotion.

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.

My problem with the word "humane" and the humanism movement

These organisms are destroying ecosystems across the globe, costing humans billions of dollars in damages.

Although some may wish it so, a world without spiders would be a miserable place.

He started an institute for making the world more playful and loving.

StackitNOW is a great idea but also demonstrates how intractable the problem is.

It's déjà vu all over again as the industry pushes "chemical recycling".

More and more, urban biking has become one of the best ways to see a lot of a city in a short span of time, so it's a no-brainer that more hotels are offering free bikes along with the price of the room. In

A new study shows that children bear 88 percent of the burden of diseases linked to climate change.

Getting enough nutrients from food reduces risk of death, not the same could be said for nutrients in pill form. And in fact, some supplements were linked to increased risk of death.

This fake fight has a good cause.

Judging from what I am reading all over the political map, I suspect that autonomous cars are the new Juiceroo.

Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.

Kidney failure is killing sugarcane workers in Central America who supply sugar for both our sweet tooth and demand for ethanol.

There's no mystery why gas mileage is not as good in the winter, but there are some things you can do to make it better.

Your phone makes it easier and safer.

There is sharing, there is abuse, and there is theft. Susie Cagle takes a tough look at the subject.

ZH architects faced a lot of serious challenges here, and came up with innovative solutions.

Also called "carbon lock-in," it's about time.

These cool kicks are a fascinating blend of waste materials, put to good use.

The fact that it is supposed to last longer is a bigger deal.

The Gene-Z app works with Apple and Android and can detect plant diseases in 10-30 minutes.

Republican Candidate in Michigan blames too much federal regulation. Others might suggest too little.

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

It's an interesting art installation that brings some attention to an electrifying man.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't still be trying to electrify everything.

Critics have been quick to say that Phonebloks isn't realistic with the current market. What they are missing is that this is the entire point of the project. Phonebloks aims to alter the present, but re-imagining the future.

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

Conservation organizations used Google Street View cameras to document the places, animals and people most vulnerable to climate change.

Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.

A Canadian scientist wants us to rethink our approach to plastic and challenge the colonial system that produces it.

Michael Pollan's first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or "highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from

Michael Pollan weighs in on what he calls a "national eating disorder."

If every home in the U.S. switched just one inefficient light for an Energy Star one, that would be equivalent to taking 800,000 vehicles off the road in term of greenhouse gas emissions

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