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Mmmm, Fungus. It’s the Next Big Thing in Fake Meat

Meat is murder—of Earth's climate, at least. More than a quarter of the planet's ice-free land is inefficiently used for grazing, a third of...

Why Old-Growth Trees Are Crucial to Fighting Climate Change

Lutz also needed such a vast area to study because he was interested in a relatively rare resident of the forest; to get enough...

Solar Panels Could Be the Best Fad Ever

“Oh, you should totally do it,” my neighbor said. I was nursing a beer at his winter holiday party as he told me about...

We Can’t Tackle Climate Change Without You

Especially now, at this critical stage, we have to accept we're all going to have to buckle down for the long haul. Responding to...

A One-Time Poultry Farmer Invents the Future of Refrigeration

There were 3 million refrigerated trucks on the road worldwide, and the fleet was expected to grow to 17 million by 2025. Peter Dearman's...

How We Will All Solve the Climate Crisis

Not long ago, in more innocent times, I was driving with my three sons back from trying to ski on a mountain that doesn't...

The Fishy Fix to a Methane-Spewing Crop

Rice has the biggest carbon footprint of any grain. Bite by bite, bacteria-guzzling minnows can make it much smaller. Source

The Political Promise of Carbon Taxes

For decades, the idea of a carbon tax has been stuck in the waiting room of American politics: Familiar to everyone who comes and...

Wyoming Confronts Its Wind-Powered Destiny

There is truth to the idea that renewables are beginning to rival fossil fuels, even in Wyoming. Coal still accounts for 24 percent of...

Concrete Is Awful for the Planet. Clever Chemistry Can Help

If you find yourself at this moment in a city of any size, take a look out the window. Most of what you see...

Solar Power Is Sustainable for the Economy, Too

Good news has been rare this past decade, so here's some: Since 2010, the cost of generating solar electric power has dropped by 80...

The Battle Against Global Warming Is the New Cold War

The Cold War inspired the creation of several key publicly funded organizations, many of them military, that have reconfigured the nation's economy, and the...

Geoengineering Is an Option. Just Read the Fine Print

Let's be clear: time is getting short. Even as we race to build roads from carbon-sequestering concrete, breed drought-resistant crops, and perfect our battery...

Energy-Saving AI Is Coming for Your Office Thermostat

The founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, once credited his nation's phenomenal economic growth to two factors: multiethnic tolerance and AC. “Air-conditioning was...

A Truly Green Electric Grid Will Need Very Big Batteries

Sometimes the sun just shines too brightly on California. The state is such a glutton for solar energy—a million solar-paneled rooftops, hundreds of...

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