Artist Sam Van Aken shares the breathtaking work behind the "Tree of 40 Fruit," an ongoing series of hybridized fruit trees that grow 40 different varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries — all […]
Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving? To find out, he recruited citizen scientists across the US to set up […]
Our planet has a carbon problem — if we don't start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we'll grow hotter, faster. Chemical engineer Jennifer Wilcox previews some amazing technology to scrub carbon from the air, […]
Oceanographer Penny Chisholm tells the story of a tiny ocean creature you've probably never heard of: Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic species on the planet. A marine microbe that has existed for millions of years, […]
What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole — where […]
The Health Ranger explains why worrying about a foot or two of rising ocean levels beyond the year 2100 is FOOLISH when the far bigger emergency is the coming population collapse. There won't be seven […]
Think electric cars are "green" energy? In truth, they merely EXPORT more pollution from the cities, alongside the human sewage that cities also dump on rural farmland. Cities POLLUTE the world, and so do electric […]
Our poop and pee have superpowers, however for one of the most part we do not harness them. Molly Winter season faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down the toilet […]
Water is an essential to any human being on this planet, while having clean water is unfortunately not something we all have access to. But a new invention developed by a team of researchers at Alexandria […]
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