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Design research agency FranklinTill has compiled a list of principles to help designers, makers and brands avoid greenwashing when sourcing textiles.

More than 1,200 hectares of Cumbrian forest will be transformed into England’s highest nature reserve

The OCTOPUS Act would ban farming the animal, and imports of farmed meat. It was introduced by a senator whose office says he learned about the plan through a story on NPR.

Warped timber and robotically woven flax were used to create a pair of experimental wooden structures in Germany, by researchers at University of Stuttgart.

Users say they are driven by a desire for companionship because China's fast pace of life and urban isolation make loneliness an issue for many.

State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and artificial intelligence capabilities that they cannot acquire otherwise, recent public tender documents showed.

Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. We need to talk more about the other big benefit — less noise.

Data from tangential flow filtration experiments using cell culture medium without animal products are used to estimate the costs of scaled-up, continuous cultivated chicken manufacturing.

Losing ground in the race to produce electric vehicles, German and French carmakers are heading toward a disruptive wave of factory closures

A number of farmers are turning to space-based monitoring to get a better picture of what their crops need.

Organización Autolibre is teaching individuals and companies across 14 countries to retrofit vehicles. Critics worry about the process’s safety.

Strava launched in 2009 as a niche website for cyclists to log mileage. During the pandemic, it blossomed into a mobile app serving more than 120 million athletes as worldwide lockdowns drove people outdoors.

“Hot Ones,” “Chicken Shop Date” and “Good Mythical Morning” draw big audiences but aren’t getting the kind of ad dollars and accolades TV shows do.

The US Justice Department sent subpoenas to Nvidia Corp. and other companies as it seeks evidence that the chipmaker violated antitrust laws, an escalation of its investigation into the dominant provider of AI processors.

A boom in data centers is expected to produce about 2.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions globally through the end of the decade, and accelerate investments in decarbonization efforts, according to Morgan Stanley research.

Scientists at Oxford University Physics Department have developed a revolutionary approach which could generate increasing amounts of solar electricity without the need for silicon-based solar

The sale price of 135 West 50th Street in Midtown, which is only 35 percent full, was a sign of how much the pandemic upended the market for office buildings in New York City.

“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”

The asset management unit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has walked away from the world’s biggest climate alliance for investors, marking the latest in a string of similar defections amid continued Republican Party attacks on green finance.

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As the federal government pours billions into hydrogen production, critics worry water shortages in the Southwest could worsen.

Geographic designations have protected Europe’s greatest wines for over a century. A hotter planet means something has to change.

How many people don’t have access to clean water? The number is closer to 4 billion, versus 2 billion. Here’s how that estimate came to be.

With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.

Parts of the U.S. have experienced record-setting heat waves over the past few summers, which may have caused pharmaceutical ingredients to degrade while en route.

Two years in, union leaders say Biden’s big climate law is making a difference.

Towards a viable alt-tech philosophy made up of individually delusional, collectively rational parts

Pakistan’s market for solar power is booming, propelled by a surge in imports from China, according to BloombergNEF.