Green Consumerism
We could grow wooden tables in the lab to save forests
Scientists extracted live cells from a zinnia plant and started growing wood-like plant tissue indoors with no soil or sunlight.
Solar panels could soon be transparent enough to be windows
Currently, many new panel designs are opaque, which prevents them from being integrated into everyday objects.
The daily grind: how to cut carbon emissions from coffee
Weight for weight, coffee produced by the least sustainable means generates as much carbon dioxide as cheese.
These plastic items kill whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds
When animals eat plastic, it can block their digestive system, causing a long, slow death from starvation.
Environmentalists bewildered by EU approach to meat consumption and Farm to Fork
Animal rights advocates and environmentalists across Europe have been left scratching their heads after news broke of a ‘Beefatarian’ campaign for which the European Union has set aside over €3 million to target consumers in Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, and
New wheat cultivars could feed more people more sustainably
Wheat and barley are staple food crops whose production needs to increase dramatically to meet future food demands.