A group of French architects presented a green project for the cathedral restoration. They plan to add plants, trees and even an apiary on the main spire.
Studio NAB proposed to rebuild Notre Dame's roof as a big public greenhouse....
"Natural Organic Reduction" is the name Washington has used to refer to what we can understand as composting human remains. Last Friday the state Senate and House of Representatives finalized their approval of bill 5001 (titled “concerning human remains”),...
Back in year 2000, scientists noted that the North rotational pole of the Earth is shifting. The phenomenon has been studied extensively since then. Unfortunately, the underlying evidence has never been strong enough to determine the reason behind this.
Climate...
Around 5 to 10 years from now a tiny organism with an unusual appetite made a home in an industrial site near a bottle-recycling plant in Sakai, Japan.
Soil and water were contaminated with polyethene terephthalate, also known as PET....
It’s easy to talk about pollution that’s far away. It doesn’t concern us--it’s deep in the oceans, in poor underdeveloped countries, with people who are different and maybe indifferent.
And it’s also easy to export our garbage to them, because...
Around the world, approximately 2.1 billion people do not have immediate access to clean drinking water.
A startup called Zero Mass Water aims to make clean water easily accessible to more people around the world. In 2015, it launched its first product, Source —...
Puerto Rico has a plan in motion to shut down its coal-burning power plants by next year.
After going through an energy crisis, Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Roselló signed the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Act, which claims the...
“If we have rubbish bins on land, then why not in the water?” It was this simple question that led surfers Pete Ceglinski and Andrew Turton to leave their day jobs and design Seabin- a floating rubbish bin which...
The Lofoten islands are a rare refuge of wilderness in the Norwegian sea, above the Arctic circle. They are considered a natural wonder and are in the process of certification as a Sustainable Destination.
However, oil prospecting led to estimates...
A leak from an underwater pipeline of state-owned oil firm Pertamina, first reported on March 31st in Borneo, led the Indonesian government to declare a state of emergency for days.
The spill spread out from Balikpapan bay covering an area...
