sustainability

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 6, 2026 thru Sat, September 12, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (10 articles) Satellite images of penguin droppings reveal impact of antarctic warming Penguin colonies are so large that their masses of excrement can be seen from sp…

Plastics are everywhere in the modern world, and they're notoriously bad for the environment, but a new plastic could be easier to break down.

The transportation sector is one of the largest sources of global emissions, accounting for around 23% of energy-related CO₂ emissions worldwide. While electric vehicle adoption is increasing, replacing the millions of existing internal combustion engine vehicles on the road remains a slow process. In the United States alone, vehicles on the road have an average […] The post This Startup Is Retro…

Publication date: December 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 233 Author(s): Aveline Cloitre, Victor Dos Santos Paulino

What was written off as a wasteland has become a test case for whether enough money and vision can restore an ecosystem to its former abundance.

The label says 100% cotton. Is it? Labels shouldn't mislead, but sometimes they do. That's why Lynen goes beyond the label. EU inspectors found that 37% of tested garments weren't made of what their labels claimed. Lynen gives you more information before you buy, including verified fiber content, how fabrics hold up over time, and what different materials might mean for your skin. White Label Clo…

A new publication in Water Resources Research ( Tiwari and Mascaro, 2026 ) provides a new national data set to help decision-makers identify areas most suitable for capturing and storing floodwater, supporting long-term water security. The authors estimated how often large floods occur throughout the United States and how much water they provide, including fro areas without river monitoring stati…

Farmers, ranchers, and food leaders will gather at Climate Week NYC to explore ways to help farms and ranches thrive. The post At Climate Week NYC, Farmers Look Toward a Stronger Future appeared first on Food Tank .

Wastewater is more than waste. It contains diverse microorganisms that may offer valuable tools for green biotechnology. Our review explores how wastewater-derived probiotic bacteria can support the sustainable biosynthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles and their potential antimicrobial applications.

Published on September 12, 2026 5:03 AM GMT I want to start by noting that I am enthusiastic about everything that the EA animal welfare movement has accomplished. I am enthusiastically supportive of all of the campaigns that make living and dying conditions less bad for farmed animals. I worked on such campaigns for almost 20 years, and I'm incredibly proud of that work. That said, it does break…

Microbial communities shape life at every stratum of environmental hierarchy, ranging from a wide spectrum of functionalities such as nutrient cycling processes that support ecosystem functioning in soil biome to those of intricate balance between disease causal and responsive immune defenses in animals. This review explores the roles of microbial niches in shaping pathogen persistence, antimicro…

Table of Contents TLDR Honduras sits on real mineral wealth — gold, silver, zinc, lead — and gets over half its electricity from renewables, mostly hydropower. Forestry (mahogany and pine)... The post Natural Resources of Honduras: What’s There, What’s Missing appeared first on 33Science .

A recent study published in Environment International found that the use of scented products like incense, oil diffusers, and candles significantly raises air pollution levels indoors. In short: All three types of fragrance products contributed to increased levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a form of air pollution linked to harmful respiratory and cardiovascular effects. Burning incense …

A company that helped explore how astronauts could grow and recycle food in space is now using the same ideas to solve a waste problem on Earth. Take Root Bio has worked with scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland to turn salty whey, a major waste product from cheese making, into bioethanol. Bioethanol is a […] The post Space-Inspired Technology Turns Cheese Waste into Fuel appeared fir…

Buildings are usually seen as places to live and work, but they can also be viewed as enormous stores of valuable materials. Concrete, bricks, timber, glass and metals could potentially be recovered when a building is renovated or demolished and then used in future construction projects. Researchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in […] The post New Digital Tool Reveals the Hidden Mat…

The Trump administration is moving to accelerate oil and gas drilling across the Western Arctic with a new proposal that would slash environmental review and public input.  The proposal could bring industrial activity to wide areas of wilderness and subsistence hunting grounds for Alaska Natives before President Donald Trump leaves office. The move is the […]

Michael Gerrard revisits the profound grief and overlooked environmental hazards of the World Trade Center attacks, including asbestos and toxic debris.

Moeve S.A. (Madrid, Spain) announced that its San Roque Energy Park and Puente Mayorga Chemical Plant, both located in San Roque, invested a total of €100.7 million in environmental initiatives in 2025. Key projects focused on improving water management and energy efficiency, as well as reducing emissions and managing waste, as detailed in the EMAS […] The post Moeve invests €100 million in envir…