Sustainable Living

Fans keep us cool, but keep berries warm.

The H5N2 virus is a mutation of the Asian H5N8 strain that mixed with North American types to create this highly pathogenic variety. It's believed both viruses are being passed fro...

Every year, almond growers spend about $290 million on pollination services, hiring hives from beekeepers across the country. Though some almond varieties can self-pollinate, the m...

How can we help coffee growers when their full-time job only produces enough money to survive for 9 months a year?

Please, please tell us we can replace exercise with cheese.

In Vietnam, more than 20 million tons of the straw are burned through four months of the year. Now a homegrown startup is tackling the issue by giving rice farmers an economic ince...

[caption id="attachment_35573" align="alignright" width="390"] British furniture maker Gavin Munro stands with a lamp he grew.[/caption]

See this? Get a good look. Because soon it’ll be different. Or similar, but with different chemicals. I don’t know.

Many of the ingredients in popular dishes would become scarce or totally unavailable without pollinators like bees, hummingbirds and hawk moths. Pollinators are responsible for one in three bites of food people take, and with the threats these small flying friends face on a daily basis, many species are in danger.