We've made an awful lot of plastic, and it's a global ecological disaster. Now, bacteria that can eat it might be our best bet to get rid of it. At a steep price.

As more banks, pension funds, and investors don't want to keep pouring money into burning toxic dead things, Big Fossil is threatening to sue them.

Farm to table protein is about to become lab to table. The environmental benefits could be massive, but will people be willing to eat it, and can they afford it?

We're using so much plastic, it's literally in our blood right now. For our own sake, we need to find an alternative.

Chemists think they figured out the process of capturing the greenhouse gas to turn it into fuel for airplanes. But the big question is whether we'd actually want to do this.

Today, nothing can replace terrestrial mining. But if make the necessary long-term investments, our reward will be nearly infinite cheap resources, and a cleaner, healthier Earth.

If you start studying the waste from gas and oil wells, and measure the emissions from coal ash, the fossil fuel industry is more dangerous than any nuclear plant.

Our factories crank out tsunamis of cheap consumer goods and online shopping is getting them around the world faster. But are we hitting a point of diminishing returns?

According to a growing number of architects and urban planners, cities need more greenery and easier access to food. But will their solution cause more problems than it solves?

Washing clothes uses a lot of chemicals and fresh water. Now, some companies are trying to change that by rethinking how to keep clothing fresh and wrinkle-free for months.

Sand and water might be everywhere, but the grim reality is that the sand we can use, and water needed for watering our crops and modern civilization are both being threatened.

Planes capable of suborbital flights reducing emissions from air travel sounds absurd at first glance, but a lot more plausible when you consider the technology they plan to use.

You might not care that that some places on Earth are seeing 75% declines in some insects. You really should. When they're gone completely, so are the ecosystems in which we grow our food.

Environmental groups have been ringing the alarm about plastic waste filling oceans and landfills for decades, and the general public is finally paying attention. But do we have real solutions to this problem?

The House's Denialist-in-Chief Lamar Smith invites his favorite climate change denialists for an afternoon of ego stroking and kvetching.