Pioneering new urban design for Stockholm includes a soaring green sky walk park
As people flock to cities for new opportunities, designers around the world are faced with the challenging task of creating new places for them to live, work and play - without degrading quality of life. In Sweden, Anders Berensson Architects have devised a brilliant new plan that includes maximum Read More...
India to ban old trucks and buses to curb pollution
India will ban trucks and buses more than 15 years old to curb record pollution levels, the government says. India's capital, Delhi, is experiencing hazardous levels of pollution due to diesel emissions, construction dirt and the burning of crop stubble in farms around the city. Air pollution Read More...
This Poultry Database Tells You Exactly How Well Your Dinner Was Treated
Is "free-range" or "pasture-fed" better? Now you can cut through the mess of marketing claims and take responsibility for the meat you eat. If you care about how chickens are raised, it can be confusing when you want to buy a chicken. Here are just some of the certifications and claims made in Read More...
This machine can recycle waste paper into new sheets of paper
Although paper consumption has halved since the 1980s, the average American still uses the equivalent of nearly six, 40-foot trees’ worth of paper each year. Epson has a solution for reducing that—well, at least in the office work space, that is. The Japanese electronics company has created a Read More...
6 habits to improve your memory and boost your brain health
In a world that focuses so much on physical condition, it seems we don’t pay enough attention to maintaining brain health. Especially in today’s society where we are constantly staying connected and consuming information, it’s essential we keep the complex yet mystifying 3-pound organ that is Read More...
This grocery store from Trader Joe's ex-president makes healthy food as cheap as junk food
Former Trader Joe executive Doug Rauch has opened a Boston market that brings healthy food to people who usually can't afford it. Think of a food desert, and you might picture a neighborhood where the nearest fresh vegetable is miles away. But the biggest challenge to healthy eating in poor Read More...
The new hotel in Vienna, run by refugees
The Magdas Hotel sits in a quiet, leafy corner of Vienna. The sunny lobby is decorated with vintage bicycles and suitcases. The soundtrack is old-school R&B. Wolfram and Christiane von Pannwitz, a physician and an art restorer from Berlin, are checking in. It's Christiane's first time in Read More...
Welcome to California's hydrogen highway
The loudest thing you’ll hear from behind the wheel of a fuel-cell car driving up the Californian coast is the hum of the tyres on the concrete interstate stretching north from Los Angeles towards Silicon Valley and San Francisco. There’s no rumble of a big American engine from under Read More...
Organ donation law 'revolution' starts in Wales
Wales has become the first nation in the UK to introduce a "revolutionary" new system to increase the number of organ donors. From Tuesday, adults will be regarded as having consented to organ donation unless they have opted opt. More than one million people - 34% of the population - have Read More...
6 incredible high-tech urban farms
Farm life typically calls to mind sprawling fields of plants in neat rows, dotted with bent-over bodies and heavy diesel-guzzling equipment. The world is rapidly changing, though, and so too is the face of agriculture. As the world's population booms and many people move to cities, a new generation Read More...