At the base, INCPs are units of about 30 children each, geographically and inclusively organized—every child in each neighborhood is reached out to and included. INCP units are kept deliberately small ...

Building safe and sustainable housing is a challenge, especially in disaster-prone regions, and ensuring that it is affordable and accessible can seem impossible. At last, as The Earth & I learned ...

According to a white paper from the market research firm, DNV, the primary challenge facing the maritime industry is its inability to easily electrify propulsion. In deep-sea shipping, “batteries ...

Global electricity reached a record high in 2023 of 29,471 terawatt-hours (TWh), largely due to electric vehicles, heat pumps, electrolyzers, air conditioning, and data centers. The 627 TWh increase ...

According to American Rare Earths, the company’s wholly-owned deposits have a potential volume far greater than China’s estimated 44 million metric tons of the minerals, which could establish the US ...

Shinto, an ancient, indigenous Japanese religion with an inherent reverence for nature, is attracting new interest among scholars and environmentalists. As the world grasps for values and practices ...

The use of sun-dried sea salt sourced from Korea Bay, carefully packed into hand-selected three-year-old bamboo stalks, is just the beginning. These stalks are then sealed with mountain clay, creating ...

Naturally occurring ambient energy takes many forms and can be harvested in different ways. For example, sunlight generates heat that can be harnessed as thermal energy. The heat from the Earth's core ...

The following is the first part of an edited talk given by Gerald H. Pollack, PhD, professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, at the First International Conference on ...

In 1916, the crew of Antarctic explorers were in a perilous situation. Five months earlier, they had managed to escape their ship, the Endurance, as it slowly sank beneath the treacherous pack-ice of ...

“The sand transformation of China’s territory is furthered by decades of deforestation,” Marijn Nieuwenhuis, assistant professor at Durham University, said in an article called “The Geopolitics of ...

Perhaps the most publicized example of a hydrogen-powered residence is the so-called Hydrogen House, or Nilsson House, near Gothenburg, Sweden, pioneered by former industrial engineer Hans-Olof ...