Aug 28, 2013 01:10PM
The revolution that started in food is expanding to clothing: origins matter. With fair trade coffee and organic fruit now standard on grocery shelves, consumers concerned with industry working condit
Aug 28, 2013 01:07PM
Cleaning the Environment a Step at a TimeUnilever, one of the world’s largest consumer product companies, which makes Vaseline and Dove soaps, is doing away with a longtime manufacturing process becau
Aug 28, 2013 01:03PM
Scientists are investigating whether mussels can be grown in urban areas as a way of cleansing coastal waters of sewage, fertilizers and other pollutants. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm
Aug 28, 2013 12:51PM
Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Birds and Insects, TooControversial neonicotinoid pesticides linked to catastrophic honeybee declines in North America and Europe may also kill other creatures, posin
Aug 28, 2013 12:45PM
Online Mapping Points the WayFalling Fruit (FallingFruit.org), created by Caleb Philips, co-founder of Boulder Food Rescue, and Ethan Welty, a photographer and geographer based in Boulder, Colorado, u
Jul 24, 2013 12:50PM
GMOs Threaten Wheat Exports America lags behind the world in limiting, banning or even labeling genetically modified (GE, GM or GMO) crops, and now Japan has suspended some imports from the United St
Jun 14, 2013 06:44PM
Natural Fiber is Stronger than SteelNanocellulose, a material derived from tree fiber and some grain stalks, could now potentially be sourced from blue-green algae in sufficient quantities to cost-eff
Jun 14, 2013 06:01PM
Neotame is the New Aspartame NutraSweet, a formerly Monsanto-owned company, has developed a new version of Aspartame, called Neotame. It’s 3,000 times sweeter than table sugar and about 30 times sweet
Jun 14, 2013 11:35AM
Fish living in lakes tainted with metals are losing their sense of smell, prompting worries about dwindling populations, because when dissolved metals contact fish nostrils, their neurons shut down to
Jun 14, 2013 11:17AM
Protecting a Natural LaboratoryThe International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is working to preserve a tract known as the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a world-renowned freshwater res
Jun 14, 2013 11:12AM
One Life Yields Two Forests Jadav “Molai” Payeng spent 30 years single-handedly planting a 1,360-acre forest in his native India. The extraordinary, yet humble, eco-conscious farmer stands as a shinin
Jun 14, 2013 11:07AM
Honeybee-Killing Pesticides Banned in EuropeColony collapse disorder, a mysterious ailment that has been killing large numbers of honeybees for several years, is expanding, wiping out 40 to 50 percent
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