Retired wind turbines are being transformed into tiny solar-powered houses and recycled skis by a Swedish company
As much as wind turbines are important, once their blades are decommissioned, all that’s left for them is…
A 37 percent carpet recycling rate in 1 state stands against 9 percent for the rest of the country, but the pounds it actually collected have been falling for three years
Pick up a three foot offcut of old carpet and the weight is wrong. It feels like a…
How to flood-proof your home: from water-thirsty plants to deflated footballs | Flooding
The accelerating climate crisis and this year’s record-breaking El Niño mean that, although the summer’s heatwaves are still…
Kingfish flown to Tasmania for Bass Strait aquaculture research trial
Placed in oxygenated bags then packed into insulated boxes, 15,000 juvenile kingfish have made the 3,000-kilometre journey from…
How an abandoned water park became a lightning rod for the Canberra community
If you grew up in Canberra, you might have fond memories of the capital’s only outdoor water park,…
Arthropods Lag Far Behind Other Animals in Conservation Assessment and Protection, Study Shows
Most U.S. insects and arachnids remain unassessed for conservation risk, and even many known at-risk species lack legal…
Fighting Fire With Fire Could Save Giant Sequoias
A forester sprays a giant sequoia during a controlled burn in 2009 in Kings Canyon National Park. About…
Australia’s big polluters rely on carbon offsets for climate credibility. But the system looks like a house of cards | Adam Morton
The fight within the Greens that led senators to cross the floor last week over koala protection in…
Will any U.N. ‘sustainable development goals’ be met by 2030? : NPR
By any standards, it was an eye-popping to-do list. No poverty. Zero hunger. Quality education for all. Gender…
After surviving 70 to 80 years in the Atlantic, a 270-pound loggerhead turtle was found swimming in confused circles off the Florida Keys — she looked almost pristine on the outside, but something had left her unable to swim normally
Seven miles south of Sugarloaf Key, on a July day, a very old animal forgot which way was…
Polar vortex strengthens over Arctic, very strong El Niño supports mid-winter weakening signal
The Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex returned to westerly circulation over the Arctic in late August 2026 and…
Taiwanese rubbish trucks play Beethoven as they drive, and residents come out and hand their sorted waste over in person because there are no communal bins to leave it in. The recycling rate went from around 5 percent in the late 1990s to over 50 percent, mostly by making people meet the truck.
The specific piece of music is Beethoven’s Für Elise, or occasionally Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska’s Maiden’s Prayer. It plays over…