Depending on where you live, there are some items that simply aren't recyclable, including varieties of paper, glass and plastic. Check with your city service provider to know specifics, but here ...

The cork is boiled, marked, and cut. Afterward, cork planks are separated by quality. The cork will also go through a drying phase and be further washed and then treated for the industry in which ...

Today, there are an estimated 103 million displaced people in the world, with the average duration of displacement being 20 years. Sadly, the numbers are likely to grow with climate migration due ...

Even if you aren't losing sleep over climate change and the collapse of the natural world and all that jazz, there are so many reasons to lighten one's footsteps. So in honor of Earth Day—and ...

Strange, Ethereal 'Fairy Lantern' Presumed Extinct is Rediscovered After 30 Years The rediscovery adds insight into these odd plants and could provide motivation to protect their forest habitats.

He continued: "Scientific life-cycle energy analyses have repeatedly found that the energy used in the operation and maintenance of buildings dwarf the so-called 'embodied' energy of the materials ...

Honey Bee Loss Has Multiple Causes “Honey bees are vital pollinators for more than 100 species of crops in the United States, and the widespread loss of honey bee colonies is increasingly ...

Let's Talk About 'Induced Distance' Instead of 'Induced Demand' Studies look at the cost of congestion for drivers, but never discuss the costs incurred by walkers.

But in October 2022, hempcrete was added as an appendix to the U.S. residential building code, utilized by 49 out of 50 states, and will be in the 2024 International Residential Code (IRC ...

Stora Enso makes its carbon from lignin, a natural polymer that acts as reinforcing bars for trees. It is separated from the cellulose in trees during paper-making to prevent the paper from ...

"In China, small and medium-sized farms (those with fewer than 500 head) account for more than 95% of the pig farming industry. It is a common practice on these small and medium-sized farms to ...

Jill Lee / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 If you're working on building a container garden, then the most important step is also the most obvious: You need containers. Handy gardeners can DIY containers ...