The way that food is currently being produced and disposed of is not sustainable. Currently, over one-third of the planet’s land area is dedicated to agriculture, with farming accounting for over 70%...

The Amazon rainforest is a vast jungle of exotic plants and animals that produces over 20% of the world’s oxygen, absorbs over 2.2 billion tons of CO2 every year and is going to make profit for Brazilian...

Newark’s air quality is equivalent to smoking half a cigarette a day. This is according to Sh**t! I Smoke, an app designed to show local air quality anywhere in the world in terms of cigarettes smoked.  For...

Spring has sprung in the Arctic this year and this change in seasons is coming nearly 20 days earlier than it did two decades ago, according to observations from a recent study published in the scientific...

New York City is one of the most desirable cities in which to work and reside. However, according to a Kiplinger survey, the cost of living in Manhattan was 138.6% higher than the national average...

Increased global seafood demand to blame Studies have shown that dolphin and human brains are very similar, even though they are not the same size.  Dolphins are one of the most intelligent...

One of the Pacific’s largest polluters may have found a solution to the problem of plastic waste in the ocean.  On April 14, 2018, a team of researchers from the University of the Philippines-Baguio...

How replenishing the world's forests could cancel out nearly a decade of fossil fuel emissions Scientists have discovered many different methods to combat the earth’s global warming crisis, though none...

Plastics: they are in everything we use. They make our lives easier and are highly cost-effective but remain for hundreds of years and—if not properly disposed of or recycled—can degrade into microplastics.  With...

Researchers have been searching for a new method to combat global warming. Since a primary cause of rising temperatures is the increase in CO2emissions—which creates an increased greenhouse effect—a...

In their constant search to find a renewable energy source, scientists may have found a solution to harness solar energy more efficiently. Up until this point, it was difficult to consider solar energy...

A brown lump of lignite coal is dug up from an exposed open pit, placed on a conveyor belt in a power plant, and sent to contribute toward the generation of electricity for households across the state....