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Pizza boxes recycled from Staten Island trash let you eat out of the garbage
It’s no secret that New Yorkers have a deep and passionate love affair with pizza, but all of those pizza boxes do take a toll on the environment. Pratt Industries, which specializes in recycled paper and packaging, thinks their pizza boxes made using 100-percent post-consumer paper from Read More...
Could artificial trees be part of the climate change solution?
In the fight against climate change, trees are an ally. They suck in carbon dioxide, reducing the harmful greenhouse gases. But there’s a problem: we’re asking them to work overtime. Trees can’t absorb enough of the carbon dioxide humanity is throwing at them unless we turn every inch of Read More...
How giant icebergs could be fighting climate change
Latest News Save for later Saved Subscribe Scientists study the impact of iceberg meltwater on the carbon-sequestering phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean. All else being equal, global warming means more giant icebergs breaking off Antarctica and sliding into the ocean. But, as these massive hunks Read More...
Solar energy jobs double in 5 years
The number of solar jobs in the U.S. has more than doubled in five years. In fact, there are more people working in solar now than at oil rigs and in gas fields. The solar industry added 35,000 jobs in 2015, up 20% from the previous year, according to the Solar Foundation, a nonprofit in Washington Read More...
5 ways you can use mindfulness to fix your brain, decrease stress and improve performance
There’s no shortage of advice out there claiming to make you better, but mindfulness meditation is the rare, research-proven technique that boosts your performance by physically altering your brain. Researchers from the University of British Columbia recently pooled data from more than 20 studies Read More...
Just because you can get a medical test doesn't mean you should
When should women get screened for breast cancer? It’s a fraught question. Mammograms can yield false positives or detect lesions that pose no health threat, making patients anxious and exposing them to risks of follow-up tests. But not getting screened may risk missing the chance, however Read More...
Here's how technology is helping to tackle the world's waste crisis
The amount of waste created by humans, the emissions that come with it and the price of disposing it are rising at an alarming, unsustainable rate, but new advanced technology offers an array of solutions to turning waste into something useful. One of such examples is US-based Ener-Core which has Read More...
Mid-life crisis a myth? New study says we get happier with age
There may not be a mid-life crisis after all. A new study claims that we’re happy at 40 than we ever were at 18, adding that the happiness curve rises with age. Previous theories claimed happiness was like a U-shape journey: it started declining from age 20, reaching its lowest point somewhere Read More...
New study shows self-driving cars are safer than human drivers
Autonomous vehicles are safer. At least, that's the conclusion by the first study on the crash rate for self-driving cars, which compared that data to national crash rates. Researchers from Virginia Tech Transportation found that the self-driving cars have a crash rate of 3.2 crashes per million Read More...
Millennials push for clean energy, sustainability and peace
A new poll by USA Today and Rock the Vote showed what the millennials generation want to see in the next US president’s agenda. It turns out, the new generation is serious about clean energy and wants the government to commit to it too. They also demand background checks for gun buyers, the use Read More...