Environmental Protection
Decarbonizing plastics is finally possible
A line of research looks at ways to cut the carbon footprint of plastics down to as little as possible.
The days of pangolins in the wild may well be numbered
Some 38,000 pangolins in Africa were poached and killed for their scales for just two shipments seized in Singapore.
Doing agriculture responsibly can protect wildlife
Thanks to an absence of pesticides Eastern sarus cranes are common again in an area from where they were driven extinct.
Farming octopuses is a really bad idea
"Octopus factory farming is ethically and ecologically unjustified.”
UN mass extinction report highlights urgency of decarbonization
Many experts see nuclear power as one of the best options for large-scale decarbonization worldwide.
Poorer nations no longer want to be dumping grounds
China, India, Thailand and Vietnam have stopped accepting trash from Europe and North America.