Amsterdam is in the midst of a housing shortage, and a new building will help, adding 82 apartments to the city’s inventory. But it will also help a different, nonhuman housing shortage, providing much-needed habitat for several other species, from nests in the façade for birds and bats to landscaping ... read more

Earlier this year, the U.S. Postal Service announced that it planned to replace its aging mail trucks, but that the new vehicles would be mostly fossil fuel-powered vehicles—despite the fact that an analysis suggests that the agency could save billions of dollars by switching to electric delivery trucks, and private ... read more

Every week, Phil Charles watches two movies at the same time, trying to follow and understand both simultaneously. It’s his homework. The technical manager for the Jaguar racing team, Charles works in the control room on race days, trying to comprehend the needs of two drivers racing at the same ... read more

Inside a Radisson hotel, hidden in a mechanical room, a black box roughly the size of two refrigerators is connected to the hot water heaters (which a hotel uses a lot). But they’re not to make the water hotter. The system helps capture CO2 whenever guests take a shower. The ... read more

Just a few days ago, the personal care industry—one that has been significantly under-regulated for nearly a century, undermining the ability for consumers to make the best possible choices for their families—saw a big step in the right direction. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions voted on ... read more

On the internet, you’ll find extreme dieters of all types, and many of them will swear to you that theirs is the only healthy way for a human to eat. At one end of the spectrum, there’s Jordan Peterson with his carnivore diet, consisting of nothing but beef, salt and ... read more

In a recent climate PSA, the U.K. Meteorological Office mocked up a weather forecast from the year 2050, warning that temperatures could hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), extreme heat for a country where the average high in July historically has been around 21 degrees Celsius (or 70 degrees ... read more

Last year, after Berlin’s Tegel Airport had been replaced by a new international airport at another location, workers started clearing the land for a new project: a neighborhood built from scratch with the climate in mind. Some parts of the airport will be reused, with old terminals turned into commercial ... read more

If you walk into a grocery store in Dubai, the spinach on the shelves will probably be from Europe—or even from as far away as the United States. Because of limited arable land and water, the United Arab Emirates imports about 90% of its food. But inside a warehouse-like building ... read more

Pavel Molchanov did the math so you don’t have to. He’s been analyzing numbers at Raymond James, the financial services firm, for nearly 20 years. As SVP and an analyst on the energy research team, he gives clear-eyed advice to investors, free of politics and marketing. His advice? Buy an ... read more

City lights that blaze all night are profoundly disrupting urban plants’ phenology—shifting when their buds open in the spring and when their leaves change colors and drop in the fall. New research I coauthored shows how nighttime lights are lengthening the growing season in cities, which can affect everything from ... read more

Two-thirds of Americans are worried about climate change, according to a recent survey from Yale and Meta, but only a small fraction of those people say that they’re pushing for climate action. It’s easy to feel paralyzed by the enormity of the problem and not know where to begin—and to ... read more

PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals” found in nonstick pans, clothing, carpet, makeup, packaging, firefighting foam, and many other products, are ubiquitous in the environment: More than 2,800 locations across the U.S. are now contaminated. The chemicals may be in your drinking water, even if you’re drinking bottled water. They may ... read more

Until recently, Jesse Milliken worked at Nike leading teams designing shoes. But in fall 2020, as wildfires burned across Oregon, he and his wife, Megan, started talking about a new career. “We were driving back over Mount Hood in the thickest of smoke, in the scariest conditions we’ve ever been ... read more

When Robin Klar was a grad student getting her master’s in nursing, she won a seat on a board of health in West Boylston, a small Massachusetts town where homeowners had their own septic systems, and the majority also had their own wells. As part of her responsibility, she had ... read more