Climate Crisis

A colorful passive cooling film could help keep homes and cars cool without environmentally destructive air conditioning.

A new material for direct air capture systems turns trapped carbon into baking soda when introduced to seawater.

A newly discovered “zombie virus” was still able to infect hosts more than 48,500 years after it was trapped in Siberian permafrost.

Made from a variety of recycled and repurposed materials, the tire may be perfectly suited for electric vehicles.

Living Carbon is ready to begin planting thousands of GMO trees engineered to pull 27% more carbon from the air.

Thanks to “electrochromism,” a newly developed material can switch between absorbing and reflecting heat from the sun.

New research out of Harvard shows how we could potentially cool the Earth by creating a massive sun shield out of moon dust.

Direct air capture technology is starting to take off, with ever-larger CO2 removal facilities opening across the globe.

Researchers found that extreme temperatures actually have a much larger effect on human activity than the previous estimations.

With ever-improving efficiencies, and rising sales in multiple countries, heat pumps are only getting harder for their detractors to dismiss.