Environment

“Choosing to Skip the Upgrade and Care for the Gadget You’ve Got”

““That’s how I think about a lot of my tech stuff: candidates for 11th-hour pet rescue,” said Mr. Lai, adding that he was fired from the recycling facility in 2010 after continuing to take home unwanted gadgets…

“The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust”

“Dozens of pipes line the shore, churning out a torrent of thick, black, chemical waste from the refineries that surround the lake. The smell of sulphur and the roar of the pipes invades my senses. It feels like hell on Earth.

“Imagining Climate: How science fiction holds up a mirror to our future”

“Imagination is what speculative and science fiction have to offer in the conversation about climate change. It’s not that climate change is a figment of a possible future, but that its deep infiltration…

“The Weight of the World”

“The Framework Convention on Climate Change is overseen by an organization known as the Secretariat, which is led by a Costa Rican named Christiana Figueres…

On the wall by her desk there’s a framed motto that reads, “Impossible is not a fact, it is an…

“Everyone calm down, there is no “bee-pocalypse””

“In a rush to identify the culprit of the disorder, many journalists have made exaggerated claims about the impacts of CCD. Most have uncritically accepted that continued bee losses would be a disaster for America’s food supply. Others…