The Environmental Scandal That’s Happening Right Beneath Your Feet

Uprising: Winner of the 2013 AAAS…

The importance of being antifragile

The recent years of financial turmoil have taught us how little it sometimes takes to trigger a financial crisis. We’ve lived through so many of these moments now, and in a way they’re all really the same moment, repeated over and over again like in a nightmare: A…

From vinegar, a potential cheap energy alternative 

Bacterial nanowires

Science Fiction Can Save Environmentalism

With public interest in the gutter, the green movement…

Whale Oil and Typewriters

Why Big Energy’s Latest Line on Solar is a Bunch of Hooey

Who Owns the Rain?

The advent of geoengineering means extraction rights will need to cover theoretical…

Peak Water: What Happens When the Wells Go Dry?

The President of the Earth Policy Institute says that…

Megawater: Replumbing the Modern World

For centuries humanity has built dams to tame waterways for our…

Psychology, Stalin and Surnames

Why 70 million people went without a surname ?