Beaver dams block Chevron oil spill in Utah

Chevron’s third pipeline spill in Utah in as many years on Monday released hundreds of barrels of diesel, polluting a river, coating beavers with the slick, and leading to the closure of a state park and the evacuation of campers. Dozens of cleanup workers are mopping...

MIDWAY : a film by Chris Jordan

The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from...

Best air-filtering houseplants, according to NASA

Having good indoor air quality is very important, especially since many of us spend so much time inside. NASA did a study to find out which plants were best to filter the air of the space station, and the agency’s findings are available to all. Read more...

The disappearing package

New York-based designer Aaron  Mickelson has developed a packaging design concept he calls “The Disappearing Package,” complete with a series of working  prototypes that illustrate how packaging waste might be eliminated by letting  the product itself be the...