Tag: Environment

An 8-Year-Old Girl Developed An Unusual Friendship With A Gift-Giving Crow

Most of us probably don't think of crows as being warm and friendly creatures, if anything stories like "The Raven" have painted crows as ominous birds. For an 8-year-old girl from Seattle, though, crows are her friends and they share a deep bond that has resulted in the birds bringing her dozens of gifts. When she was four, Gabi Mann started dropping scraps of...

This Invention Can Extract Honey Without Disrupting Bees

Collecting honey is not only a laborious process for people, but it's not especially a walk in the park for the bees either. Those bee keepers where protective gear for a reason. A revolutionary new invention is changing all that by eliminating the need for people to go tampering with bee hives through a spigot system that taps right into the honeycomb. The product called...
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These Thought-Provoking Photos Show People in 7 Days Worth of Their Garbage

I know that I produce more waste than I should, every little plastic bag from the corner store, every yogurt lid that I toss...

This Kickstarter Aims To Impact The Future of Irrigation In A Very Positive Way

A new product on Kickstarter called Hydros might just save the suburban lawn. With states like California, Nevada and many parts of the Mid-west...

Your Air Conditioner Is Likely Making Your City Even Hotter

I try not to run my AC window unit too much, mostly because I'm always a little in dread of the summer spike in...

FloDesign Wants to Change Clean Energy With Jet-Engine Wind Turbine

Get ready, Californians, because you're soon going to see a whole new crop of windmills dotting your west coast landscape. A Massachusetts' company called...

Iceland Outlines Plan to Finally Stop Whale Hunting

Iceland will likely stop the practice of commercial whale hunting within two years.

Halloween is an Environmental Horror Story

The scariest thing about Halloween is the amount of trash it generates.

Wildfires aren’t just burning out of control, they’re linked to a rise in Covid

Wildfires are spreading smoke and with that comes a rise in Covid cases.

10 Companies Saving the Planet (and Making a Ton of Money Doing it)

Listening to the way conservatives like to talk up dirty, inefficient and old-fashioned industries, because of the money they can generate, you'd be forgiven...

This Clean Energy Power Plant Doubles as a Breathtaking Ski Slope

Power plants aren't typically tourist attractions. Unless, of course, they have a ski slope, climbing wall, and rooftop bar.

This Man Thinks Mushrooms Can Fix the Environment and Take Down Monsanto

Monsanto is one of the largest developers of genetically altered seeds and pesticides like Roundup. It pulls in around $16 billion a year and...

A Haunting “Dead Whale” Has Washed Up in Manila

You probably know that plastic pollution is a big problem for the oceans; but most of us don’t see its detrimental effects and truly...

Scientists Might Have Just Accidentally Cured Our Plastic Epidemic

Plastic waste is creeping into every corner of the planet; but thanks to an unexpected ally in the form of a bacterial enzyme, we...