Plants sprout – and die – on moon
For the 1st time ever, plants were sprouted on the moon – but didn’t survive long – as part of a biosphere experiment on China’s Chang’e-4 lander.
Pollution Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against This Living Technology
An early experiment at a city landfill showed how algae and sunlight can repair environmental damage.
Popular Kitchen Remedy Puts Antibiotic To Shame
Fighting infection with conventional antibiotics is becoming an increasingly hopeless affair. The CDC recently warned these drugs are useless in combating deadly ‘super germs.’ So what can one do? Your kitchen holds the key.
Progressives Must Seize Their Momentum to Articulate a Saner Foreign Policy
A clear message is needed: Enough with endless wars and the global oligarchy.
Protect Our Children: Toxic Pesticides Have No Place in a Just Food System
Chlorpyrifos is an extremely toxic pesticide used on a variety of common crops including corn, oranges, and strawberries. It is responsible for acute pesticide poisoning of farmworkers, polluting drinking water, and developmental delays in children who live in farming communities.
Protect Our Water
Toxins in US tap water come from water pollution at the source—largely from agricultural run-off, fossil fuels, and industrial pollution.
Rare footage of Bryde’s whales feeding
Captured via drone off the coast of Auckland. There are thought to be fewer than 200 of these creatures left in New Zealand waters
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
The trolls are winning. How do we fix life online without limiting free speech? Andrew Marantz reports.