Biomass combined-heat-and-power plants should be one of the tools we use to help retire grossly inefficient coal-burners.

Germany’s decades-long shift from from coal to renewable energy has brought both challenge and opportunity — and there are lessons for the rest of the world ...

But a number of researchers today think that it is actually humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that creates the conditions for new viruses and diseases like COVID-19, the viral disease that ...

Recent woes have drawn unprecedented attention to the worth of fresh, clean water. Can it change the way we pay for the world’s most undervalued resource?

Scientists suggest genetic engineering can save biodiversity, create disease and climate resistant plants and even prevent mosquitoes from carrying malaria ...

As human actions cause more and more damage to ecosystems and human health, people, environmental organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), nonprofits and others are turning to the courts ...

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Sheep Graze Higher Among the four different types of livestock featured here, mutton and lamb will see the second largest percentage increase in per capita consumption between 2014 and 2024. At 1.9 ...

Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.

“Hempcrete,” made from the woody core of hemp, is showing promise as an environmentally friendly building material. Researchers have found that the material meets the current standards of most ...

Production of palm oil — a ubiquitous ingredient — is devastating for the environment. Solutions are complex, but they are out there.

Open-source breeders are resisting what they see as corporate control of the food supply, making seeds available for others to breed with in the future.