Devastating oil spills in the Niger delta over the past five decades will cost $1 billion to rectify and take up to 30 years to clean up, according to a UN report. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ...

Our “Plastic to Oil Fantastic” video brief about the invention of a plastic-to-oil converting machine went viral and exceeded 3.7 million views on YouTube. This is evidence that concern over “the ...

Monomania is a serious disorder, characterized by, according to my dictionary, “excessive concentration on a single object or idea.” In the case of much of American farming, that single object is the ...

The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead ...

Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the world’s leading scientists report ...

In 1985, Li Hua visited a valley in the foothills of the Tibetan Plateau. The area was better known for its panda population, but the oenologist realized that its high altitude, hours of sunshine, ...

国連大学（UNU）の新しい評価によると、塩は世界のかんがい地の5分の1を劣化させており、年間およそ273億USドルの経済損失を引き起こしている。過去20年間、毎日、75カ国の乾燥地帯や半 ...

木の花ファミリー農園は16年程前に日本の景勝地、富士山の麓で開園した。創設メンバーは数人だけ。エコビレッジという概念があることすら当時の彼らは知らなかった。 東京から西へ2時間 ...

As part of an institution that is raising the alarm about the future of the planet, you would expect Didier Houssin, director of sustainable energy policy at the International Energy Agency (IEA), to ...

The raging epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa underscores the urgent need for international cooperation for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. With its epicenter in Guinea, ...

私たちの暮らしが数多くの家電製品に囲まれるようになったのは、それほど昔の話ではありません。現在の洗濯機の原型といわれる噴流式洗濯機が、日本 で最初に発売されたのは1953年。

簡単に言うと、 米国オレゴン州立大学（OSU）が発表した海洋酸性化のニュースは一大事だった。科学者たちは、ウィスキークリーク牡蠣養殖場における稚貝の死滅という謎の解明に ...