Inventing the Future of Flight
In silence, and without using a drop of fuel, two visionary pilots embark on the world’s first circumnavigation using only the power of the sun It was the Wright brothers all over again. On 3 December...
View ArticleScottish Entrepreneur Inspired by Indian Garbage Dump
Squinting through the smoke and haze of a Mumbai, India, garbage dump a few years ago, Toby McCartney could never have imagined that one day he’d be shaking hands with Sir Richard Branson, and Tyra...
View ArticleEat Your Food Packaging, Don’t bin it – Scientists
Scientists are developing an edible form of packaging which they hope will preserve food more effectively and more sustainably than plastic film, helping to cut both food and plastic waste. The...
View ArticleThe Doctor who Can’t Wait to Save Millions of Lives
Sometimes the world needs to move a little faster, especially when lives are at stake. James Bernstein brushes aside convention and invents a sterile surgery in a suitcase. Great ideas sometimes start...
View ArticleInside Brazil’s Battle to Save the Amazon with Satellites and Strike Forces
When George Porto joined Brazil’s environment agency 13 years ago, the country didn’t have access to satellite data on illegal logging – let alone heat maps tracking deforestation patterns or...
View ArticleClock Starts Ticking to Implement Paris Climate Deal
A new global agreement to tackle climate change will take effect on November 4 after the accord crossed an important threshold for support late on Wednesday.European nations, Canada, Bolivia and Nepal...
View ArticleInvest in Cities Now or Face 2.5 Billion Unhappy Urbanites by 2050
In fast-growing cities across the developing world more than 70 percent of residents lack access to basic services like clean water, affordable transportation or decent housing, a research group said...
View ArticleDon’t Even Think About Littering at This Colorado Stadium
Eco-Products and the University of Colorado have teamed up to make Folsom Field one of the nation’s greenest stadiums – on the outside as well as on the inside.The university has expanded its...
View ArticleActress Shailene Woodley: I Didn’t Plan on Being Arrested
Actress Shailene Woodley was honored last month at the 26th Environmental Media Awards (EMAs), where she used the opportunity to call on people to attend the protests at Standing Rock.The protests are...
View ArticleAmazon Forest Guardians: Now it’s War
The rainforest shook with the sound of exploding tires and groaning steel as flames tore through a truck carrying giant tree trunks illegally sawn from the Amazon.An agent of Brazil’s environment police...
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