Good News for the Environment

Climate change can feel hopeless. And — just like hope — hopelessness spreads. But there’s hope — because many talented, determined, and brilliant people around the world have defined how we can reverse some of these effects of climate change.

In 1989, Phil McCrory, a hair stylist in Huntsville, Alabama, was watching CNN coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska while washing a client’s hair in his salon. He wondered... what if human hair could be used to clean up oil spills?

Marie Kondo's new series is arriving on Netflix. With many of us accumulating piles of things to get rid of, we want to highlight some responsible ways you can tidy your home while minimizing waste and giving back.

When an architecture student’s dazzling ocean cleanup concept fizzled, she started thinking smaller — and tackled the problem at the source.

The climate activists have been trying to get the names and details of Afghan campaigners and their families onto evacuation lists, but eight days after their first calls for help, there has been no response.

Here are some ways to make sure your wedding is perfectly you, while also being ethical, environmentally friendly, and serving a greater purpose.

This might come as a surprise: Worldwide tree cover has grown — not shrunk! — by 2.24 million square kilometers — the size of Texas and Alaska combined — in the last 35 years, according to a paper in the science journal “Nature.”

Her mother, grandma, and sister-in-law all fight fires, and she expects her baby daughter will become a firefighter, too.

As the Swedish teenager marks the third anniversary of her first solo climate strike, here's how she built the global "Fridays for Future" movement...

Boise’s system is entirely renewable. It requires no fossil fuels, and because the water is constantly recycled in the aquifer, the system sustains itself. It is also relatively cheap to operate. Gunnerson says that his annual budget to heat all the buildings is about $750,000.

Columbia Straw Supply works with local balers to buy up all that leftover wheat straw, which Columbia Pulp turns into pulp for paper products, giving farmers a new stream of revenue — and pushing the paper industry in a more sustainable direction.

In a report, WWF examined the potential impact on employment of channeling into greener activities the annual $500 billion governments now put into damaging subsidies that support things like fossil fuels, over-fishing, and unsustainable agriculture.