Environment Archives

Can We Turn Evaporation into Cheap Electricity?

The power of water has long been harnessed by humanity, but another part of the water cycle is being used to turn evaporation into electricity.

This is not the set of a sci-fi show. It is the Ecocapsule, an independent off-the-grid micro house from Nice…

Are we headed toward a future with no bees? Declining Bee Populations Revisited covers what we know about bee hive collapse and recovery.

Only three Isle Royale Wolves remain, according the the latest count. Find out why, and if anything can be done to save the wolf population.

By Steven Spence “Yaffle” was one of the English folk names given to the European green woodpecker (German Grünspecht; Latin…

Find out what is happening to the polar bears: As the arctic ice melts, polar bears must look for food on land, and there isn’t enough.

When a team of researchers set out to count the endangered primates in Ivory Coast national parks and forest reserves,…

Photography and Text by Steven Spence This is a wild red kite (German: Roter Milan; Latin Milvus milvus ), which…

On March 20, 2015, people across Europe, northern and eastern Asia, and northern and western Africa were treated to…

Holes in the sea floor release methane gas. Microorganisms that live near the holes protect our air by eating 75 percent of the methane.