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Scientists Work to Turn the Tide of Oyster and Seagrass Decline in Chesapeake Bay, Often by Hand
The Chesapeake Bay has, despite massive setbacks, continued to return to something resembling a healthy estuarine ecosystem, in no small part because of the...
Gigantic 438-Year-old Coral Discovered in the Great Barrier Reef in ‘Excellent Condition’
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
The widest, and perhaps oldest single coral in...
A Fisherman’s Underwater Sculptures Have Stopped Illegal Trawling – Bringing Art and Biodiversity Back to Italian Bay
When Paolo Fanciulli dropped 39 large marble sculptures down to the bottom of the sea off Tuscany's Maremma Regional Park, it was not his...
Company Says its Multi-Day Storage Batteries For Renewable Energy Are the Holy Grail We’ve Been Waiting For
Unveiled after years of work, an energy startup in Massachusetts is claiming that in a few years they can produce, at scale, "the battery...
Sweat Could Power Smart Watches and Activity Trackers in the Future – Researchers Develop New Technology
Wearable electronic devices are great tools for health monitoring, but it has been difficult to find convenient power sources for them.
Now, a group of...
Honda is Designing an Ingenious In-Shoe Navigation System For The Visually Impaired
Honda is developing a in-shoe navigation system to support the visually impaired with walking, and it could be a game-changer.
The Ashirase is a navigation...
Seaweed is the Food –and Fuel– of a Sustainable World, And it May Start in Australia
Australian scientists have been uncovering a near-unending list of ways kelp and other kinds of seaweed can help in the fight against climate change.
It's...
To Replace Lithium Batteries For Grid Storage ‘Gravitricity’ Uses Gravity
A company that uses gravity to create a 'giant battery' has just completed a successful test in Scotland, paving the way for its commercial-scale...
Scientists Create World’s First Truly Biodegradable Single-use Plastic That ‘Eats Itself’ in Just 2 Weeks
Despite our efforts to sort and recycle, less than 9% of plastic gets recycled in the U.S., and most ends up in landfill or...
Coating Buildings With This Paint Might Cool Them Down Enough to Reduce the Need for Air Conditioning
In an effort to curb global warming, Purdue University engineers have created the whitest paint yet. Coating buildings with this paint may one day...
Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Then Grow New Bodies
Since the days of BBC's original Planet Earth, nature documentaries have brilliantly revealed the bizarreness of life. But, the behavior of a sea slug...
In World First, English Museum Successfully Breeds Endangered Harlequin Toad
Herpetologists at the Manchester Museum have successfully bred a critically-endangered harlequin toad for the first time ever.
The scientists successfully recreated the habitat in which...
New Plant-Based Plastic Can Be Broken Down and Recycled With Near-Perfect Efficiency
Hoping to solve the plastic pollution problem, with recycling technology being too often inefficient, there seems to be a new biodegradable, bio-based substitute being...
Sanctuary Containing ‘Healthiest Coral Reefs in the World’ Just Tripled in Size Thanks to U.S. Government Protection
The Gulf of Mexico’s largest coral sanctuary just got 200 percent bigger, now that the U.S. government formally approved the expansion of the Flower...
Japan is Building Wooden Satellites to Cut Down on Space Junk
A wooden satellite will be launched into space in 2023 to study how the organic material holds up in the vacuum outside our atmosphere.
Wooden...
Seaweed-Eating Giant Crabs Could Help Save Florida Coral Reefs – And They’re Lovingly Named ‘The Reef Goats’
Researchers in the Florida Keys have determined that coral reefs can be saved from invasive seaweed with the help of a particular species of...
Researchers Make Biodegradable Tableware From Sugar and Bamboo So it Will Be As Cheap as Plastic
Scientists have designed a set of "green" tableware made from sugarcane waste and bamboo that doesn't sacrifice on convenience or functionality and could serve...
One Way to Power Electric Vehicles? The Answer Could Lie in Spinach
"Eat your spinach," is a common refrain in childhood, but the green vegetable, chock full of nutrients, doesn't just provide energy in humans. It...
New Developments in Clean Energy and Carbon Capture Are Making Real Progress in Climate Crisis
The mainstream media is covering the climate crisis infinitely more than they used to. However, they often report dramatically more on the negative—focusing on...
The Fashion Industry Has a Waste Problem: This Non-Profit With 2,000 Volunteers Is Helping Solve It
Fabric cuttings and textile leftovers are a difficult class of waste to recycle, but in a fashion industry first—a door-to-door New York City recycling...