The need for fresh water has pushed humans into exploring new and innovative techniques. For thousands of years, in regions where water is scarce, sometimes using air wells, people have harvested water from the rain, fog or even dew. In Ethiopia, we can witness…

Costa Rica has passed legislation to become the first plastic-free and carbon-free country in the world, in just over 2 years

Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air

How finance is a mechanism of social and political dominationThe 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of “fictitious…

Reclaiming food traditions, a big part of it.

Open Insulin: biohackers trying to create a "microbrewery" for insulin as an answer to price-gouging

Researchers say the findings could bring us one step closer to developing a microbe-based "stress vaccine". *Updated*

In an attempt to protect bees from colony collapse disorder, France banned all five neonicotinoid pesticides linked to bee deaths.

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In a video that is guaranteed to not be controversial, I propose three points we should focus on in the fight to stop climate change. This is largely based…