In March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan triggered a chain of events that ended Germany's nuclear power program. Berlin announced an accelerated phase-out that would close all remaining...
Eevie turns a smartphone into a personal environmental impact tracker. The app reads accelerometer, gyroscope, and location signals to automatically detect how someone moves: on foot, on a bicycle, or...
The global clothing industry accounts for an estimated 2% to 8% of all greenhouse gas emissions, a range that spans a 2018 UNFCCC report and a 2020 World Economic Forum...
Eco-anxiety is a chronic fear of environmental doom. It is not a formal clinical diagnosis in the DSM-5 or ICD-11 as of early 2025, but the American Psychological Association has...
On 1 October 2024 the United Kingdom became the first major economy to eliminate coal power entirely, closing the Ratcliffe-on-Soar station. That deadline, written into law years earlier, was met....
Between 2017 and 2022, a series of data breaches and privacy scandals eroded public and institutional trust in centralized digital platforms. Each incident triggered a distinct response: a new regulation,...
Climate change is creating new revenue streams for a growing number of businesses. These companies are not just managing risk. They are selling goods and services that depend on a...
In September 2017, weeks after Hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean, Richard Branson and Usain Bolt stood together at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica....
Deep coal mining in the United Kingdom ended on 18 December 2015, when Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire closed. Surface mining followed in August 2020 with the closure of the...
California's SB 100, the 100 Percent Clean Energy Act signed on September 10, 2018, requires the state to source all of its electricity from zero-carbon resources by 2045. The law...
The General Data Protection Regulation took effect on May 25, 2018, designed to protect personal privacy. It has also, unintentionally, become one of the most effective environmental rules in the...
Aluminium batteries are not a single technology. They are a family of chemistries, each trying to replace lithium-ion in a specific role. The common thread is the anode material itself....
