Our “Plastic to Oil Fantastic” video brief about the invention of a plastic-to-oil converting machine went viral and exceeded 3.7 million views on YouTube. This is evidence that concern over “the ...

The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead ...

Devastating oil spills in the Niger delta over the past five decades will cost $1 billion to rectify and take up to 30 years to clean up, according to a UN report. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ...

Monomania is a serious disorder, characterized by, according to my dictionary, “excessive concentration on a single object or idea.” In the case of much of American farming, that single object is the ...

Sea levels are rising so fast that the tiny Pacific state of Kiribati is seriously considering moving its 100,000 people on to artificial islands. In a speech to the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum ...

Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime to no effect. But it still did not prepare her for ...

Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the world’s leading scientists report ...

The raging epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa underscores the urgent need for international cooperation for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. With its epicenter in Guinea, ...

私たちの暮らしが数多くの家電製品に囲まれるようになったのは、それほど昔の話ではありません。現在の洗濯機の原型といわれる噴流式洗濯機が、日本 で最初に発売されたのは1953年。

この60年間に、世界中のあらゆる場所で人口統計に大きな変化があった。例えば、急速な経済発展に伴って起こった人口増加や都市化現象などである。 これによって伝統的な生活様式は ...

ケイティ・クッシュミンダー博士は、国連大学マーストリヒト技術革新・経済社会研究所（UNU-MERIT）とマーストリヒト大学の准教授。彼女の主な研究対象は、帰国・社会復帰、非自発的移住 ...

木の花ファミリー農園は16年程前に日本の景勝地、富士山の麓で開園した。創設メンバーは数人だけ。エコビレッジという概念があることすら当時の彼らは知らなかった。 東京から西へ2時間 ...