Environment Archives - Page 7 of 25

Created to reduce our use of plastic, the New Jersey plastic bag ban has had unintended environmental consequences.

Knowing that green crabs are a vicious invasive species that are reproducing more rapidly, a distiller had a solution.

With temperatures rising to new heights during an increasing numbers of days, some cities have appointed officers to oversee heat waves.

Wondering which comes first, the cars or the charging capability, we might have a chicken egg problem for our EV charging stations.

How the world could prevent a catastrophic oil spill and avoid the tragedy of the commons according to an economics Nobel laureate.

The conservation or development tradeoff for flamingos and bears shows us the complexities of environmental decisions.

Threatened by overfishing, the world’s fish stocks could be saved by a WTO agreement that limits subsidies and by fake fish.

With our landfills filling, California’s SB 1383 has taken a huge leap toward encouraging 39 million people to recycle their organic waste.

Although soft plastic recycling was supermarket chain Tesco’s goal, it did not quite work out as they planned.

We wind up with a plastics plight because the many wonderful attributes of plastic make it tough to avoid and tough to discard.