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Water and Pesticide Use Cut Nearly in Half After ‘Better Cotton’ Helps Farmers Become Sustainable
It's everyone's favorite fabric—and over the last decade it’s become way more sustainable.
Better Cotton just published a major annual impact report highlighting significant progress...
Good News in History September 16
36 years ago today, the first international climate agreement was signed in the form of the Montreal Protocol to repair the hole in the...
Psychedelic Drugs May Be Able to Treat Brain Injuries, Stimulating New Neurons to Replace Impaired Ones
Encouraging brain injury research—conducted in test tubes, lab animals, and a few small studies in people—points to the potential of psychedelic drugs to limit...
Scientists Manage to Generate Electricity From the Deadly E-coli Bacteria in New Breakthrough
Scientists have managed to generate electricity from the deadly E-coli bacteria—a finding that could lead to a valuable by-product from waste water.
Bioelectronic experts from...
Company Devises Ingenious Method of Repurposing Old Wind Turbines: ‘The perfect time’
With the first generation of wind turbines well into a period of decommissioning, questions about what to do with the massive fiberglass blades is...
Robot Named Sorty McSortface Uses Mechanical Claws and AI to Sort Tons of Recyclables in Minutes
Conversations about artificial intelligence took off in the media after the debut of ChatGPT this year, but AI had already been coiling its industry-changing...
Man Used 80 Discarded Vape Batteries to Power an Electric Scooter Proving the Importance of E-Waste
A clever graduate has used 80 discarded vape batteries to power his e-scooter—and to make a point about waste.
The 23-year-old Brit says disposable vape...
Discovered Enzyme Turns Air into Electricity, a New Clean Way to Make Energy Dreams Come True
Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy by using the low amounts of hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an...
An Infinitely Recyclable Plastic Could Solve the World’s Pollution Problem
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new infinitely recyclable plastic that could be the answer to the world's growing pollution...
An Espresso a Day Could Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay by Preventing Tau Clumping
Whether enjoyed in a latte, Americano, or even a martini, espresso coffee provides an ultra-concentrated jolt of caffeine. But it might do even more...
Paris Art Exhibit Pulls Leon Monet From Famous Shadow of his Older Brother Claude
Did you know Claude wasn't the only Monet? His younger brother Leon's faithful support of his older brother is partly why Claude became the...
Clean Fuel Made by Pulling CO2 From Air and Plastic Waste–Powered Only by the Sun and Photosynthesis
Cambridge University researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed...
Plants Respond to Touch Sending Different Signals Through Their Cells, Shows New Study
Despite the veins in a leaf appearing like a nervous system, our woody neighbors do not have a nervous system—but that doesn't mean they...
Firefighting Drone Can Douse Wildfires From Above the Hillsides Where Firefighters Can’t Go
In one of Europe's technical centers for firefighting research, a nimble drone that can carry a fire hose is being tested for quick-response firefighting.
Hovering...
Some People Are Magnets for Mosquitoes – It Could Be the Soap They’re Using
Why some people are mosquito magnets might be due to which soap they use in the shower, according to new research, as the pesky...
Cancer Screening Could Predict Tumors Decades Before They Start Growing Thanks to This Discovery
After scientists identified a link between the risk of cancer and clusters of chemicals in an individual's cells, a screening program that could detect...
These Green Books Are Poisonous—and May Be on a Shelf Near You
There are poisonous books—the Communist Manifesto, or Mein Kampf for example—and then there are books that are literally poisonous.
Covered in vibrant green bookcloth, hundreds of 19th-century...
Revolutionary New Clean Fuel Developed that Could See Cars Being Powered by Sunshine
An environmentally clean fuel made from the power of the sun has been devised by scientists which could revolutionize motoring.
The solar-powered technology converts carbon...
Volcanic Microbe Discovered Can Eat CO2 ‘Astonishingly Quickly’ to Cut Climate-Heating Gases
A microbe discovered living on the slopes of an Italian volcano can eat and store CO2 in its body faster than any other species...
Happy Earth Day: 11 Fun and Easy Ways to Help Honor the Planet
We don't celebrate Earth Day by wasting paper, creating garbage, or needlessly using electricity. We do it by supporting our planet—and we make it...