environmental impact, Tag

He's not much for new technology, but John Allason couldn't wait to get his hands on a fully electric car for his 80th birthday.

Apple just announced plans to close the loop and make all of its products from recycled materials. We tend not to realize how damaging our electronics are for the environment - from mining materials to the toxic effects when...

The Australian Energy Market Operator must improve its management of the national grid to avoid blackouts and power shedding next summer, energy experts say.

The 2016 Olympics in Rio will begin in just over a week and despite several ongoing catastrophes, the games will go on. In light of this monumental event, we thought we'd take a closer look at its environmental impact and...

The average mobile made this year produced 35 kg of carbon emissions in manufacture, equal to 16 weeks of laundry. Sound small? Well 1.9 billion mobiles will be sold in 2015, approximately 60 per second. Their total carbon...

You wouldn’t think it, but these beautiful colorful flowers of the Scartell flowerbed are made from plastic waste. Italian artist and sustainability enthusiast Francesca De Marinis created this eco-flowerbed using discarded...

If President Obama was looking for any additional reasons to veto the senate's recent vote in favor of Keystone XL, the EPA just handed him 1.37 billion. That's the number of metric tons of additional greenhouse gases that...

There's a new type of seismic imaging called Acoustic Zoom, and it's better than older forms of sonar for both dolphins and scientists alike. It works by emitting smaller amounts of energy over a longer period of time,...

China wants to bulldoze more than 700 mountains in order to make way for more buildings, but scientists are unsurprisingly concerned about the plan. Never before has mankind attempted mountaintop removal of this scale and...

Fast food offers a cheap and calorie-rich option to fill your stomach, but can it be considered the "most bountiful food" of all time? The Freakonomics authors and radio broadcasters are asking just that question after receiving...

As if the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill weren’t a big enough mess, Halliburton has now pleaded guilty to charges of destroying evidence related to the disaster...

Galyna Andrushko / Shutterstock Roses may be red, but they’re definitely not green according to research from Scientific American. As millions of partners exchange bunches of red roses in the run up to Valentine’s...

UK mobile network provider O2 just announced that they will not be releasing a charger with the new HTC smartphone. Why you ask? Well, their research has revealed that the UK “has more than 100m chargers lying in drawers,...

There has been a lot of debate about the merits of space tourism over the last few years. Some see it as a luxury for the super-rich, others an opportunity to go where only a lucky few have gone before — but one thing...