Fed up of waiting for the city to tackle traffic fatalities, Angelenos are taking street safety into their own hands — one ...

Atmospheric water generation' is inching from sci-fi to reality in communities that lack access to potable water.

Every time somebody flushes a toilet in Mannheim, they contribute to ecological shipping. Since March 2025, the German city’s wastewater treatment plant has been feeding an experiment of global ...

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. When Samuel Salamone ...

Sewage is a massive untapped source of green methanol, perfect for powering ships. One German city is producing it with every flush.

See what stories caught our attention this week, including the transformative power of two-wheeled travel and an award-winning senior housing project designed to tackle loneliness.

Every morning, about 50 to 100 people gather in line in front of a center owned by the municipality of Aarhus, the second-largest city in Denmark. Here, they can give — and take — all sorts of ...

When passengers pass through the newly remodeled Portland International Airport in spring 2024, they’ll be able to point up to specific Douglas fir beams around the oval skylights and know that they ...

Michel Costa with a hornet nest. Courtesy of Michel Costa So that year, when Costa, a retiree and avid beekeeper, discovered a new weapon with the potential to change the course of the entire war, he ...

The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters and ...

In the vast majority of countries, landfills are growing at an unsustainable rate. According to the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), 40 percent of worldwide waste ends up in open, ...