One World – One Environment – One Network
Modern sustainability practices encourage resource and energy efficiencies across sectors such as food production or biofuels, but this approach could actually lead to ongoing environmental decay, according to researchers at the University of Georgia. Using...
A polluted swamp in Bangladesh is set to be transformed into a green university. BRAC University will showcase sustainable, low-tech solutions, including natural cooling and vertical gardens. The Bangladesh-based nonprofit organization BRAC has plans to transform...
Wood could replace petroleum in the chemical industry, leading to cost savings and sustainability. An interdisciplinary team of bio-engineers and economists from KU Leuven has now mapped out how. Wood offers a cost-effective and...
Sidewalk Labs has an unveiled a digital prototype for what would become the world’s tallest mass-timber building. The architecture arm of Google parent company Alphabet plans to build a 35-storey structure from modular, interlocking...
Researchers in Switzerland are devising ideas to help buildings save power. In their experiments, they fed a self-learning heating control system with temperature data from the previous year and the current weather forecast. The...
Wooden buildings have double the climate benefit than their cement and steel counterparts: They produce less greenhouse gas emissions and can even act as a carbon sink. A new study from the Yale School...
Clothes shopping has roughly doubled in the last two decades. Affordable fast fashion may be a blessing to the wallet of fashionistas, but it comes at a shockingly large environmental cost. Much attention has...
American households waste almost a third of the food acquire, according to a new study from Pennsylva State University. This could be costing the average household around $1,866 per year. Around 30% to 40%...
Every time you wash clothes, you are releasing microplastics into the sea, but we know little about the amount and distribution of such material from different types of textile. Research scientists are now working...
People who live in more built up areas and spend less free time in nature are less likely to take actions that benefit the environment, such as recycling, buying eco-friendly products or volunteering to...
A recent study finds that people could be ingesting approximately 5 grams of plastic every week on average, which is the equivalent weight of a credit card. The analysis No Plastic in Nature: Assessing...
New technologies are needed to combat climate change. Now bioinformatics specialists from the University of Würzburg might have found a way of enabling plants to store more carbon dioxide. Each year, an average of...
Nestlé will invest up to $2 billion in an effort to replace virgin plastics with food-grade recycled plastics. Some of the money will be invested in start-ups developing new materials. Nestlé pledged two years...
Most meat eaters support veganism and vegetarianism for their ethical and environmental benefits, but taste, price and convenience are still barriers, finds a new study. A recently published study that looked at public opinion...
The European Union aims to become climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this, Brussels has presented an investment plan for a European Green Deal that will unlock private funds and financial instruments to lead to...
Toyota has unveiled plans to a build a prototype ‘city of the future’ at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. It is envisioned as a ‘living laboratory’ where residents and researchers can test...
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich are conducting interdisciplinary research into the development of materials that open the door to organic infrastructures with closed material cycles, such as bridges...
Large cities around the world continue to favor ‘inefficient and unsustainable’ outward growth into suburbs, instead of high-density upward growth, finds a new study. Researchers from Yale University and the World Resources Institute analyzed...
From avoiding cheap, trendy clothes to using your own cutlery when travelling, reducing and reusing are the key to embracing a more sustainable lifestyle in 2020, according to UNEP Young Champions. The UN Environment...
Landscapers have planted Asia’s largest urban rooftop farm atop one of Thailand’s oldest universities. The 7,000-square-meter green space can help feed people and even mitigate the effects of climate change, such as flooding. Thammasat...
