Environment
Permafrost melt threatens 'Doomsaday' seed Vault in Norway
22 May 2017
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a gene bank built underground on the isolated island in a permafrost zone some 1,000 km from the North Pole, was opened in 2008 as a master backup to the world's other seed banks
Measuring the human impact of weather
18 May 2017
Mountains of waste could lead to new US manufacturing, jobs
17 May 2017
Waste material from the paper and pulp industry soon could be made into anything from tennis rackets to cars, bringing agriculture production and industry together in a bio economy making renewable products
Diesels pollute more than lab tests detect
16 May 2017
Essar Steel develops eco-friendly sand from slag
08 May 2017
Not even the Himalayas are immune to traffic smog
03 May 2017
Geologists find high sulphur pollution along on one of the most remote mountain roads in the world — the Manali-Leh Highway — suggesting a link to diesel pollution
Food webs entangle humans, animals, crops and the environment
By By A'ndrea Elyse Messer | 24 Apr 2017
What people plant and eat has a great effect on the environment and on ecosystems. In the end, those choices will impact human survival
Apple to go green, use only 100% recycled materials
21 Apr 2017
‘We're actually doing something we rarely do, which is announce a goal before we've completely figured out how to do it,’ the technology giant said ahead of Earth Day