Nearly one-third of CO2 emissions due to human activities enters the world’s oceans. This is part of the natural recycling of carbon. By reacting with seawater, CO2 increases the water’s acidity (lower pH), which may significantly... 

by Sarah Laskow. New York City promises to double the percentage of waste diverted from landfills within the next five years. Increasing shale gas production could squas h renewable energy development. The Obama administration released... 

Have a Green Christmas Look for reuse and recycling opportunities as you replace appliances, electronics and computers. Discarded cell phones may be donated for Domestic Violence Programs though your cell services provider. Discarded... 

by Sarah Laskow. The EPA released a draft of its fracking report and found chemical contamination in a gas field well. The draft summary says that “EPA is concerned about the movement of contaminants within the aquifer and the... 

by Sarah Laskow. Among Republican presidential candidates, denouncing climate science is like a bug. They all have it now. Even Jon Huntsman . Ban Ki-Moon is not particularly hopeful about the prospects of success at Durban. Justifiably.... 

While it seems logical that many restaurants have already begun to reap the benefits of installing onsite worm composting operations, airports may not be the first place people would think of to have such systems in place. The Charlotte... 

by Jess Zimmerman. This video is bananas. But fluorescent bulbs are not bananas. So don't eat them, like these guys do, and also don't do any of the other things in this video. Criminey. If you do have mercury-containing fluorescent... 

New observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers’ understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. This process allows galaxies... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Pretty much nobody besides Eloise and Leonard Cohen stays in a hotel for long enough to go through a bar of soap. They can't put your slightly-used soap out for the next guest, though, so hotels throw out more... 

by Jess Zimmerman. We figured this depressing Scientific American article about the top 10 pollution-related health hazards deserved the Onion -style infographic treatment. Here are the actual numbers for how many people are being... 

Nobody likes trash: taking it out or talking about it. It smells, it is a hassle to deal with, and it can be hazardous to your health, which is why we go through great lengths to have it hauled away every week. Recycling is trash’s... 

by Jess Zimmerman. This 90-foot bridge in Wales is Europe's first to be made entirely out of recycled plastic, not to mention the longest plastic bridge ever built. More than 50 tons of plastic went into making the bridge, which... 

by Jess Zimmerman. The kitchen of Philips Design's ” Microbial Home ” turns food waste into compost and cooking gas. Organic waste gets thrown in a ” bio-digester ,” where specialized bacteria process them... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Here's a twofer: you can occupy Wall Street and do something with that junk mail besides just chucking it in the bin. Sure, it'll still end up in the recycling eventually, but it won't be any MORE trashed... 

by Sarah Laskow. New York City is fielding proposals from universities to build a new science and technology campus on Roosevelt Island, and the competition is showing how desirable green buildings are becoming. The two front-runners,... 

by Jess Zimmerman. The iMac was built to be pretty. So why not sidestep the difficulty of recycling e-waste by making discarded iMac carapaces into something attractive for the home? Jake Harms had the clever idea to make them into... 

by Jess Zimmerman. The whole “feminists burn their bras” thing is kind of a canard , but now you can do it for real and for an equally good cause. Japanese lingerie manufacturers are collecting bras and recycling them... 

by Sarah Laskow. Babies! They use so much energy that the best thing you could do to save the human race from climate change might be to avoid having one altogether . But if you choose the reproductive path, at least the six thousand... 

by Sarah Laskow. While U.S. border monitors were busy looking for terrorists in cargo containers, a slew of invasive species slipped unnoticed into the country. Whatever that sheen in the Gulf is, it's not BP's fault , okay??... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Unless you're stranded on a desert island, you should not throw empty glass bottles in the water. But you SHOULD apparently grind up those bottles, mix the ground glass with lime and caustic soda , and put that...