Sustainability

Japan’s LignoSat will test wood’s resilience in space and could lead to a new era of more sustainable, less polluting satellites

Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

As the climate crisis intensifies, experiments to “cool the planet” by reflecting solar radiation proliferate. Without proper global and national regulation, they will worsen the crisis

With chemical spills and other accidents a common occurrence, it’s becoming more expensive to maintain the status quo than to make chemistry safer 

A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence tech will worsen the climate crisis

The ancestral Maya lived in better harmony with the environment and kept water clean naturally. We can learn from them

The most detailed global look at groundwater yet shows a lot of loss but also stories of success in restoring some aquifers

A new index scores U.S. cities by the amount of land they provide for parking. Sunbelt cities top the list

Some scientists say the controversial fishing practice of ocean trawling stirs up buried organic matter, some of which makes its way to the surface in the form of carbon dioxide

The Biden administration is doling out more money for charging infrastructure because range anxiety is considered a major challenge to Americans’ widespread adoption of electric cars

The overuse of dangerous pesticides in Brazil threatens public health and serves as a warning to the rest of the world about the dangers of science denial

As we careen on a climate catastrophe, the COP28 conference has witnessed world leaders’ failure to avert clear disaster for humanity