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 ...

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 ...

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 European Space Agency (ESA) released its annual Space Environment Report in March with its Space Debris Office. Given how the Earth’s orbital environment is a “finite resource” with limited space, ...

“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 ...

Vincent Callebaut is a Belgian architect based in Paris. Since founding his studio in 2008, he envisions and executes projects addressing both the ecological and societal challenges of global warming.

This noise pollution, sometimes described as “sensory smog,” affects marine species because hearing is the primary sense they use to communicate, interact, breed, navigate, detect predators, and find ...