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A Future on Thin Ice
Ingenious solutions for replicating glacial meltwater are under way in Ladakh — involving Tibetan Buddhist monks… Text: Michael Buckley || Research: Allan Fotheringham || Photos: Mikael Lorin + STSSC March 2015: High...
What are Abalone and Here's How We Get Them Back!
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Innovators Tackle Indonesia's Peat Problem
Protecting Indonesia's peatlands – which form some of the densest carbon stocks in the world – is crucial to meeting global climate goals. After years of neglect, some of the...

The State of Electric Cars is Strong and Getting Stronger
Electric cars don’t have the reputation they probably deserve. This land has been touting renewables for over a decade, yet many of us still rely on gasoline to get around....

Science: Where Dreams Come True
The pace of human enterprise is not constant. Change is so fast that policy makers and governments are way behind the curve. Climate change is only one example. The result...

Solar Power Will Bring Off-Grid Kenyans Satellite TV
Finally, off-grid Kenyans can catch up on Game of Thrones! Azuri Technologies, the UK-based provider of the PayGo Solar home systems that are revolutionizing Africa’s energy economy, has partnered with...

Orgs Announce First Branded Traceable Certified Wool from Iconic Peninsula Valdés
The Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network (WFEN) and the Wildlife Conservation Society-Argentina (WCS) are pleased to announce traceable Certified Wildlife Friendly wool—part of the “Patagonian Fibers with a Conscience” program—from the...

Important Elevation and Slope Relationships of Eddy or Backwater Basins
When you construct your street-side stormwater-harvesting basins, described in my last post, Harvesting Stormwater with Backwater or Eddy Basins, you'll of course want them to be as successful as possible; to...

App Fights Food Waste By Letting Users Order Restaurants' Extras
Would you buy and eat extra restaurant food if you could snag it at a steep discount? Your answer probably depends on what "extra" means. In this case, we're talking...

The 5 Best Environmental Stories of October 2016
As children across the nation don their costumes and prepare for a night of tricks and treats, the rest of us are grumbling that it’s only Monday. November is practically...

UCLA Is Turning Carbon Into Concrete
Where would we be without concrete? Two-thousand years after the Romans conquered the Western World, their monuments are still caressed by the sun. Ageless, they have withstood the rise and...

Harvesting Rock Water and More in Kenya
Earlier this year, while visiting the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya, I saw some of the worst erosion I’ve yet witnessed, while also experiencing a variety of growing oases. The three oases...