Up until now, only solid materials have offered the ability to capture materials using the filtering power of pores

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.

Without a more comprehensive vision of economic health and better ways to measure it, we are flying blind on a path to economic decline and collapse.

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.

How to slow it? Access to voluntary family planning for all women. It more than pays for itself, reducing unwanted pregnancies, abortions, unplanned births... And helps reduce humanity's environmental impact.

The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people.

As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.

Demographers are complaining, but Americans have many good reasons for not wanting so many kids.

If the latest projections prove to be accurate, we need to plan for about a 10% increase in the needed supply of food, drinking water, and energy, and in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

Annual growth will soon be negative everywhere except Africa.

The number is probably far higher than you think.

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.

Move over, regular solar panels.

Buying products from solar farms is just one more way to support clean energy.

The country's onward march of low carbon energy shows no signs of stopping.

Now that's progress...

Stanford scientists figure out a way to get hydrogen out of seawater. Does this matter?

Can we hear them saying, "I told you so!" to the rest of the outdoor gear industry?

Allison Arieff reviews the Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. She writes "His brain was constantly consumed with the serious issues of his day —

Combining computer-aided parametric design and the design principles of tensegrity (tensional integrity), this experimental pavilion tests the boundaries of building a stronger structure with less material.

Tomorrow, real men eat quiche (cheese pi).

Those of us who love everything Bucky are stunned too.

First we have to declare 'peak livestock', then eat less beef and more beans.

New research reveals the first solid evidence that an animal (other than humans) can distinguish emotional expressions in another species.

The gaze between human and dog can share physiological properties similar to that of mother and infant, a new study finds.

Dogs have been trained to sniff out a devastating avocado tree disease before it becomes fatal – and they are really, really good at it.

The drought was so bad it made our region a little lighter.

Todmorden is a town that embraced the local food movement by growing their own fruit and veg anywhere in public spaces. They also have an Egg Map and a Green Route for the Vegetable Tourists!

This new map uses satellite technology to display the world's vegetation, and can be used for everything from weather predictions to deciding best land use practices.

The movement of air around the planet is fascinating, and has never been more clear thanks to this map. The modeling system used to make it can simulate worldwide weather at remarkable detail.

A satellite that ran out of fuel two years ago is now giving scientists a huge wealth of data.

3D maps created by Climate Central show how sea level rise could change some familiar cityscapes.

This little solar powered device can take the guesswork out of SODIS water treatment, showing when the resulting water is safe to drink.

As you can see in the satellite photos above, California is experiencing a massive drought over most of the state. The most visible aspect from space is the snow cover (or lack thereof) over the Sierra Nevada mountain range

National almond, walnut and pistachio crops are very thirsty, and predominantly grown in drought-stricken California; if you’re looking for alternatives, consider these.

A 1.5-degrees-Celsius warmer world would bring bigger gusts of wind more regularly.

We are by no means helpless in the face of climate change.

Along with climate-killing CO2, there are a lot of people-killing pollutants. Perhaps we should change our message.

The harshest snowstorms along the Eastern Seaboard will remain as frequent in a warming world.

Ever wonder what it would look like to be in the maw of a snow leopard? Wonder no more.

New quarters are coming and they star FRUIT BATS!

It's either billions of dollars in polar engineering, a rapid cut in emissions now, or an all-of-the-above strategy.

The largest greenhouse gas emitter wants wiggle room when it comes to cutting emissions.

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land

A major report just released offers expensive technological solutions. We reivew options ranging from barriers to bow-hunting.

As environmental awareness spreads, shoppers are making different choices.

In a new video, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot explain that we must use nature to fix our broken climate.

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.