The Time Icelandic Environmentalists Teamed Up With Elves
Environmentalists protested the development of a road on both environmental and mystical grounds.
Environmentalists protested the development of a road on both environmental and mystical grounds.
Grime exposed to sunlight can re-release some of these gases back into the urban atmosphere.
2015 marks California’s fourth consecutive year of drought.
Litter ruins the psychological benefits people otherwise get from looking at natural landscapes, psychologists find.
Inscriptions written on the walls of a cave in central China document seven major droughts over nearly 500 years.
Offices are too cold for everyone, and that’s wasting precious energy.
It's not the resurrection of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane, but it's pretty close.
There are several thousand species of fleas around the world—and 300 of these bloodsucking pests call the U.S. home.
When illegal palm trees are planted in protected Indonesian forest, Rudi Putra grabs a chainsaw.
Remember how scared we were of satanic cults, Y2K, and nuclear war? (Okay, we're still scared of nuclear war.)
This definitely isn't your average greenhouse.
If they can make it here, they'll make it anywhere.
If we asked you to picture a mountain, you’d probably imagine something that kind of looks like a pyramid, right? But it turns out mountains are a lot more varied than we knew.
Adidas is coming out with a new line of shoes made from ocean trash plastic.
More than 60 billion LEGO pieces were produced in 2014 alone. It takes more than 6000 tons of plastic each year to make that many bricks.
The super-efficient heatless dryer uses up to 10 times less energy than the standard tumble dryer—and may finish the job 20 minutes faster.
A worldwide construction boom is sucking our global sand supply dry.
Monitoring the world's oceans isn't cheap. This new invention could revolutionize how scientists and researchers get data—and help surfers be smarter when hanging 10.
Poop can conduct electricity. This is never a good thing.