A copper refinery transformed its waste stream into an unlikely renewable energy goldmine, turning forgotten byproducts into the very panels that now power its operations.

A Depression-era soil fix that blanketed millions of Southern acres became an environmental bogeyman—but the numbers tell a very different story than the legend.

A Florida rancher protected his hard-won land from development by locking it into conservation, proving that ownership and stewardship can be the same thing.

Concrete is the second most-used substance on Earth after water, and the cement that holds it together is one of the biggest headaches in climate policy. Making cement means heating limestone until it ...

At 21:02:23 UTC on 13 September 1959, the radio signal from Luna 2 stopped at the receivers of Jodrell Bank in England. The silence was the first independent confirmation that a human-made machine had ...

Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...

Ask someone in Lima what they want for dinner and the answer might contain a Cantonese verb. Vamos al chifa means let’s get Chinese food, and chifa comes from chī fàn, to eat rice. That phrase has ...

What if the part of a battery you never think about, the fluid that sits between the electrodes, could be made from the shells your last seafood dinner left behind? That is roughly what a team led by ...

Wade out from the north-western shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, keep walking until the water reaches your chest, and there is a fair chance you are standing on a mosque. In the autumn of 2025, an ...

Opportunity self-portraits from January 2014, left, and March 2014 show how wind removed much of the dust from the rover’s solar panels. These images postdate the first dust-devil photograph and do ...

An international team of researchers has identified a new fuel-efficient route between Earth and the Moon that also avoids the kind of communications blackout the Artemis II crew experienced when ...

An ice cave on Earth, used here as a representative image of a water reservoir hidden beneath thick ice. It does not show Ganymede, its surface or its subsurface ocean. Photo by Han-Chieh Lee on ...