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Virginia Tech research reveals a bee-manufactured polyester that mimics conventional plastic but breaks down rapidly in soil, offering a blueprint for sustainable next-generation materials.

Future brightens for US developers in particular after election when voters rejected Trump's war on clean energy.

The country is expanding solar and wind power, but critics point out its continued reliance on coal.

New Zealand's Foodstuffs North Island Limited has given its latest electric semi truck an electrifying new identity, courtesy of a second-grade student at a local elementary school. more . . .

Scientists say that climate shocks may have been 'overlooked' when researching certain diseases in the Industrial Revolution.

The country feels different as the US midterm election results come rolling in. When all of the votes are counted, Democrats are set to win the national popular vote in all House races by about 13 percentage points. The voters have spoken in huge numbers: they want leaders who make ... [continued] The post The US Midterm Election Results Remind Us To Focus On The "Foundation Of Our Democracy" appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Republican losses threaten the rationale behind the health secretary's alliance with the president.

A stricken container ship shed tonnes of tiny pellets called nurdles on the west coast. Five years on, locals are counting the cost to marine life and livelihoods.

3M has agreed to pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits over groundwater contamination from potentially harmful chemicals in firefighting foam and other products.

There are electric bikes, there are electric motorcycles, and then there are machines like the Aniioki A9 Pro Max that plant a flag somewhere in the increasingly large no-man's-land between the two. more . . .

In the land of tigers, prey animals like deer and monkeys are often the first to sound the alarm when they sense the predator's presence. Forest communities in Nepal, where the success of tiger conservation has come at the cost of rising human-tiger conflict, have long known to listen for these natural alerts. This local wisdom inspired a recent pilot project using sensors dotted around a forest to detect these alarm calls and send out automated alerts telling people where tigers or leopards might be prowling, reports contributor Praveen Kumar Yadav for Mongabay. The developers said they'd . . .

Madagascar's largest fruit bat is getting smaller, and hunting may be partly to blame, a recent study suggests. The Malagasy flying fox (Pteropus rufus) feeds mainly on fruit and nectar, making it an important pollinator and seed disperser. But the species is also hunted for meat, both for subsistence and commercial sale. Hunting is legal in Madagascar from May to September each year; some hunters use nets to catch bats for food, while others shoot them with shotguns to sell in markets and restaurants. Researchers from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, U.S., first noticed the . . .

Foragers and farmers see native-grown hickory nut oil as a sustainable alternative to environmentally harmful imports. By Jessica Klein If you've ever looked for a homegrown replacement for the imported olive, canola and palm oils that typically fill grocery store aisles and home kitchens, there's a small but growing alternative. A network of sustainability enthusiasts is now making oil from a resource native to Pennsylvania, one of the fastest-growing hubs for this production-bitternut hickory trees.

A monster El Niño is nearing its peak, deepening drought in many parts of the world. Coming as countries slash foreign aid and war chokes supplies of energy and fertilizer, the climate phenomenon could leave millions more people in vulnerable countries without enough to eat. Read more on E360 →

The Southwest just got way too much of a good thing. Last weekend, a ferocious storm inundated communities and killed at least four people. Though precipitation is an essential component of Arizona's desert climate, the state got two or three months' worth of it in just a few days - far more than human infrastructure could handle all at once. Since September 20, an astonishing 28.84 inches of rain has fallen on Clovis, New Mexico, compared to its historical average of just 3.3 inches. "This weekend was just adding more on the rough times that those communities in Southwest Colorado and . . .

Australia has designated a seabed storage site near its northern coast where a Japanese company plans to store massive amounts of carbon pollution using a technology that has divided climate scientists.