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You wouldn’t know it, but plants are constantly taking in information.  

Biomechanist Katy Bowman argues that our fitness mindset has environmental consequences in her new book, Movement Matters.

National Parks have long been a staple of American wildlife conversation. Why not have some underwater?

Ukraine’s government is planning to turn the contaminated area around Chernobyl into a producer of renewable energy.

Time travel has titillated scientists and science-fiction fans alike ever since HG Wells first conceived of it in the 19th century. But it plausible? Princeton astrophysicist John Richard Gott III discusses the two ways that it might be.

Being able to rewrite DNA as we wish could give us almost god-like power over all life on earth.  

Our picture of life is going through a major shift. Ed Yong’s book I Contain Multitudes reveals that a genome generally doesn’t contain all the genes an organism needs. Symbiosis isn’t rare, it’s the rule. And we’re just the icing on life’s vast microbial cake. 

A report by a team of scientists highlights the dangers of “gene drive” technology that can eliminate unwanted species.

There’s been a lot of talk among Republican candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump about completing the United States-Mexico border fence. But completing the wall has consequences outside of human politics.

Around the world, people are embracing minimalism as a lifestyle, focusing less on owning things.

The asteroid that hit the now-Yucatan Peninsula allowed the dinosaurs a more memorable end, but they were already doomed says a study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bios Urn gives people the choice to leave a sustainable and meaningful impact on our world when we pass—a tree instead of a tombstone. However, not everyone has a backyard available, which is why the company developed Bios Incube.

The UN Happiness Report this year includes happiness inequality. Learn how it affects you, and what you can do to lead a happier life.    

France is building a solar energy system on top of its roadways.

Climate change has brought a disease out of obscurity and into new regions of America, causing a pandemic.

The supply chain for recycling paper burns more fossil fuel than it needs to. Epson has come up with a solution.

If it bleeds, it leads.

A plant that redefines the relationship between the industrial facilities and the community.

A new French agreement hopes to curb the global waste food by encouraging supermarkets to act generously.

That’s right… giant parsnip steak. Sound appetizing? In this video, chef Dan Barber explains why it’s important to cook your food using a diverse array of natural ingredients from your local environment.

Rupert Murdoch now owns 73 percent of National Geographic. What does this mean for the organization’s future? 

If you want a vivid barometer for the health status of worldwide marine ecosystems, look no further than the global seabird population. Unfortunately, new research estimates that the global seabird population has dropped 70 percent since the 1950s. That’s not good.

A prominent performance artist accuses Big Oil of focusing more on cleaning up their image than their business’ collateral damage… and charges cultural institutions that take Big Oil sponsorship money as accomplices to that crime.

The pope laments the state of the environment, but he also decries the naive central environmentalist belief that humans are separate from nature and the villain in a simple myth of US (humans) against True Nature.

Common assumptions about the dangers of radiation are excessive. Journalism plays a huge role in creating and feeding these fears.

Comparing “astronaut” to “cowboy” ethics can show that Locke’s limits on liberty need to be revised. We once could see that pitting self-interest against collective self-preservation wasn’t rational. Me-opic and logically unworkable ideas that economics sometimes encourage have made that harder to see.   

Despite popular views, evolution entails inheriting more than genes. And it isn’t all ruthless competition. Nor is it all random mutations. “Niche Construction” adds a third inheritance mechanism to the complicated mix. 

As authorities seek answers, cleanup crews are getting to work to rehabilitate the fragile California coastal ecosystem sullied by 20,000 gallons of crude oil.

Pope Francis’ message on the environment is actually a radical call for humans to accept a more modest material lifestyle, and for a major redistribution of the world’s wealth and power. That’s great stuff for a sermon, but not so helpful as a practical guide for achievable change.

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that our current brand of global capitalism is quickly outgrowing democracy. This leads to a bevy of social and geopolitical concerns all related to the public commons.