Earth Wise

Does vertically-grown food taste different?

Vertical farming is a method of producing crops in vertically stacked layers or surfaces...

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Wildfires and air quality

The wildfires last summer in parts of the U.S. and Canada fouled the air over much of the...

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Sustainable New Year’s resolutions

Every year, millions of people around the world make resolutions to spark positive change in the...

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Global climate progress is too slow

According to a new report by the World Resources Institute, the world is making progress on...

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Ending plastic separation anxiety

Petroleum-based plastics are one of the biggest environmental problems we face.  They mostly end...

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The hottest year on record

Barring some sort of massive global deep freeze late in the year, it was increasingly obvious by...

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Pesticides and beeswax

Honey bee colonies in the United States have experienced annual population declines since 2006....

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The importance of Alaska’s National Forests

The world’s forests play a crucial role in taking carbon out of the atmosphere and mitigating the...

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Groundwater loss

Groundwater is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand, and rock.  It...

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Uncounted emissions

Most countries around the world have pledged to cut their carbon emissions to try to reduce the...

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Brownfields and solar power

Brownfields are blighted lands that have suffered environmental contamination, making it very...

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Food and the climate crisis

Agriculture is a major part of the climate problem and remains one of the hardest human...

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Are we really serious about eliminating fossil fuels?

Almost all the countries around the world have pledged to take action to reduce planet-warming...

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New York’s first offshore wind farm

New York has set a target of installing 9 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2035.  The first...

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Action on the toxic chemical from tires

Since the 1990s, populations of coho salmon in streams and urban creeks up and down the West...

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The warmest fall

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has global climate records dating back 174...

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Detecting dangerous chemicals with plants

Researchers at University of California Riverside have been studying how to enable plants to...

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A fern-based insecticide

A spore-producing bacterium is the source of various crystal toxins (known as Cry proteins) that...

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Deeper corals bleaching

When ocean waters get too warm, corals – which are actually tiny animals – eject the colorful...

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Wildlife rebounding in Uganda

The numbers of elephants, rhinos, and other animals in Uganda’s nature preserves is steadily...

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