Tech Culture Mobile The UK's Royal Mint is using "revolutionary" new tech to recover gold from e-waste While benefitting the environment By Rob Thubron, October 20, 2021, 8:23 AM 10 comments
Tech Culture IBM brings weather data and AI to help with sustainability goals Lessening impact on the environment By Bob O’Donnell, October 12, 2021, 9:36 AM
Electronics Tech Culture Microsoft commits to support "Right to Repair" Right to Repair can reduce electronic waste By Daniel Sims, October 7, 2021, 5:37 PM 40 comments
Car Tech Volvo is ditching leather in all of its EVs to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions Say goodbye to luxurious leather interiors By Shawn Knight, September 24, 2021, 2:28 PM 26 comments
Industry Amazon to sell returned items as part of waste-reduction plans The price of "used" goods will be based on their condition By Rob Thubron, August 5, 2021, 7:41 AM 11 comments
Tech Culture New York looks to ban cryptomining to study environmental impacts A new bill calls for a 3-year moratorium on mining cryptocurrency By Eric Hamilton, May 5, 2021, 9:10 PM 101 comments
Industry Tech Culture Razer invests in sustainable toilet paper to celebrate Earth Day The green company goes even greener By Rob Thubron, April 22, 2021, 8:45 AM 10 comments
Tech Culture Doomsday clock remains 100 seconds from midnight, the closest we've been to an apocalypse But there are reasons to be optimistic By Rob Thubron, January 28, 2021, 6:59 AM 39 comments
Car Tech Science A microplastic scourge: student group might have designed the solution These students teach tires to tread lightly By Pete Flint, November 24, 2020, 8:35 AM 21 comments
Science On a positive note, Covid-19 lockdowns are affecting global seismic activity Humanity's impact can be measured on paper By Shawn Knight, April 2, 2020, 12:31 PM 15 comments
The Web Science Report shows one quarter of all tweets about climate change are produced by bots Bots were responsible for 38% of all tweets mentioning "fake science" By William Gayde, February 22, 2020, 8:40 AM 69 comments
The Web Online porn videos produce as much CO2 as a small country Porn videos are not eco-friendly By Rob Thubron, July 17, 2019, 8:47 AM 28 comments
Science Electronics Could these fungus headphones help alleviate the e-waste problem? Headphones that were grown By Rob Thubron, May 29, 2019, 10:25 AM 10 comments
Tech Culture China looks to ban cryptomining A government agency called the practice "undesirable" By Rob Thubron, April 9, 2019, 8:17 AM 14 comments
The Web Industry The move to digital music has seen greenhouse gases increase Streaming services use a lot of power By Rob Thubron, April 9, 2019, 4:40 AM 13 comments
The Web The Amazon Day delivery option is now available for all US Prime members A helpful Prime perk By Rob Thubron, February 28, 2019, 10:41 AM
Industry Tech Culture Top consumer brands will test a milkman-style subscription delivery service this summer The aim is to cut back on waste from single-use packaging By Shawn Knight, January 28, 2019, 3:06 PM
Apple Industry Apple believes climate change could increase iPhone sales in the future 7000 companies issued reports on the risks and benefits that climate change will have for their business By William Gayde, January 23, 2019, 7:21 AM 7 comments
Electronics Tech Culture UK company puts animatronic orangutan on streets of London Highlighting the devastation caused by palm oil production By Rob Thubron, November 14, 2018, 8:15 AM
Science NASA captures image of bizarre, perfectly rectangular iceberg Almost certainly not the work of aliens By Rob Thubron, October 23, 2018, 7:05 AM 37 comments
Industry Salesforce announces Step Up Declaration to fight climate change 20 other companies have joined the initiative By Rob Thubron, September 14, 2018, 8:02 AM
Industry Polytech students are developing a submersible robot to hunt Lionfish Ecosystems are being destroyed by the invasive predatory fish By Cal Jeffrey, August 29, 2018, 4:34 PM 15 comments
Industry Foxconn set to drain 7 million gallons of water from Lake Michigan every day Environmentalists aren't happy By Rob Thubron, April 30, 2018, 6:06 AM 11 comments
Electronics Apple Apple unveils 'Daisy' the recycling robot and the 'Apple GiveBack' recycling program Daisy can dissassemble up to 200 iPhones per hour By Cohen Coberly, April 19, 2018, 3:34 PM 8 comments
Science New tree-planting drones can plant 100,000 trees in a single day Company has a goal of planting 500 billion trees in the next 30 years By William Gayde, January 31, 2018, 7:58 AM 27 comments