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7 habits that force your mind to stop worrying
Worrying can get the better of almost anybody. Work stresses, personal concerns, and sometimes even irrational thoughts can seep into your mind and interfere with your ability to concentrate on ordinary tasks. Unfortunately, stopping those worries isn't easy--there's no "off switch" that can shut Read More...
Devices spark movement to treat disease with electricity
The treatment seemed as ridiculous as wearing a foil hat to block CIA transmissions: 20 patients with overactive bladder syndrome had electrodes stuck to the soles of their feet for three hours every evening, producing a gentle vibration and causing the big toe to rhythmically bend and straighten. Read More...
This London underground farm grows salad in a WWII bomb shelter
Deep below the streets of London, something is growing in tunnels that once kept people safe from World War II bombs. One hint: It's leafy. Growing Underground is a company that makes "kilometer zero" eating possible in London, by growing salad in LED-lit, underground factories right beneath the Read More...
Could forests store more carbon as the climate warms?
Public lands are considered one of America’s best defenses against rising greenhouse gas emissions because the forests there pull vast quantities of carbon from the atmosphere and store it in tree trunks and roots. As the climate warms, public lands may become even more valuable in America’s Read More...
To build a greener economy, Bhutan wants to go organic by 2020
Farmer Phub Zam, 55, is in a hurry. Monsoon rains have hit her farm in Bhutan's Paro valley and Zam is rushing to harvest her broccoli before crop is damaged. "Of all my vegetables, broccoli is the most sought after," she said. "Each kilogram sells for 90 rupees ($1.40)." That's 15 to 30 cents more Read More...
Big business creates a new non-profit to help fix climate change
A growing number of influential business and government leaders now believe that it will be possible to expand the global economy while meeting our climate goals. But the real challenge is exactly how to do that? Decision makers, when grappling with climate change, often face mountains of detailed Read More...
Here are the U.N.'s global goals that will (hopefully) change the world in 15 years
The countries of the world to set ambitious (and perhaps impossible) goals for fixing our planet and society by 2030. By 2030, the world will be a vastly better and perhaps unrecognizable place. At least it will be if you believe that the world can even partly meet the United Nations' new Global Read More...
Climate change is so bad that the US and China agree on it
For years, China and the US have kept each other locked in a regulatory stalemate over climate change. As political rivals, neither one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters was going to budge unless it was sure any action it took to curb carbon dioxide emissions wouldn’t let the other Read More...
Solar power invades oil-rich Middle East
Solar energy is becoming a major power player in the Middle East In a patch of otherwise empty desert 30 miles south of Dubai, the outline of what is expected to become the Middle East’s largest photovoltaic solar project is taking form in the sands of the United Arab Emirates. The Mohammed Read More...
Walmart doubles down on renewable energy with wind deal
Walmart WMT is taking a big step toward fulfilling its long-term ambition of being wholly supplied by renewable energy with a new deal to buy more than half of the electricity generated by a new wind power facility in Texas for the next ten years. The world’s largest company will buy 58% of Read More...