environment
How psilocybin evolved has more to do with sending insects on terrifying trips than it does making Phish sound good.
The study was small: 8 people from 8 different countries. But the findings have alarmed scientists.
Pay attention to the decisions made by the provinces.
Climate change stands to take the one thing away from us that might make it easier to deal with, cheap beer.
The Ocean Cleanup's System 001 is being deployed at Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
But they are only taking the CO2 equivalent of 32 cars off the road every year.
This is doubly worrisome on the heels of the recent UN climate change report, which gave humanity an urgent deadline to cut carbon emissions: just 12 years.
Most of us will still be alive then. Maybe.
They were a little optimistic in 1912, but they understood that adding carbon to the atmosphere has side effects.
People were about to start hunting grizzly bears in Yellowstone again, for the first time in 40 years. Thankfully, that has now been blocked.
In the near future, we might use the toxic gas to power homes.
Scientists have developed new ways of understanding how the biological forces of death drive important life processes.
If you want to know what makes a Canadian lynx a Canadian lynx a team of DNA sequencers has figured that out.
The Spilhaus Projection may be more than 75 years old, but it has never been more relevant than today.
We're more dependent on them than we realize.
Ocean Conservancy has collected more than 60 million butts since the '80s.
Environmental concerns have caused some to opt-out of reproduction, both to help the planet and to protect their would-be children.
Only a radically new tax system, one that affects everyone’s bottom line, can compel the environmental transition in consciousness that we so clearly need.
China's expanding middle class is changing the world. The results are a global recycling dilemma.
“These facts have been presented time and again, year after year, for decades,” DiCaprio says. “Quite simply, we are knowingly doing this to ourselves."
A new report highlights the increasing violence faced by environmental activists around the world.
Giant fans start capturing CO2 from the air as the world's first commercial carbon capture plant goes live.
Elon Musk and many top CEOs condemned President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Scientists find a surprising way to biodegrade plastic at an impressively fast rate.
A Silicon Valley investor is spending millions on a publicity campaign aimed specifically at Elon Musk.
The environmental legacy of this generally disgraced President is second to none.
Cheetahs and giraffes have been placed on the conservation "red list" due to collapsing populations.
Climate change is a topic that's politically charged rather than scientifically charged. Bill Nye offers tips for how those on the side of science can begin to have meaningful conversations with skeptics.
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Why are we the way that we are - is it nature or nurture? This week, Bill Nye answers a question from Evan, who is having a science argument with his mom.
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Can one person save the world? This week, Bill Nye finds hope in middle-school student Victoria, who asks what she can do to pull her weight in our current environmental crisis.
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