When 89-year-old retired banker Donald Triplett died quietly at his home in Forest, Missouri, in 2023, his passing made headlines for one fact alone: He was the first person ever diagnosed with autism ...

Data centers—such as those used by Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta—are crucial for data connectivity, storage, and processing. However, these pose concerns given their large real estate footprint ...

Some factions of religious communities are addressing environmental challenges and offering guidance for followers to protect the natural world. Examples include Christian churches teaching about ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been publishing annual reports on world health statistics since 2005, with a focus on health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs) since 2016. WHO’s 2025 ...

Breaking company co-founders CEO Sukanya Punthambaker (second from left) and chief scientific officer Vaskar Gnyawali (right) with lab colleagues. ©Breaking The world relies on plastics for endless ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm—and is causing a storm of controversy over its gargantuan electricity appetite and its insatiable thirst for fresh water to cool the heat its ...

Through some of Europe’s most stunning countryside, an epic 167-mile story flows—a story of how courage, determination, and sacrifice by ordinary people saved one of the continent’s last surviving ...

On April 28, 2025, a catastrophic electricity blackout left 60 million people in Spain and Portugal without power when 15 gigawatts vanished from the grid in seconds.

As the fight against global warming intensifies, more industries are joining the fray. In the shipping industry, this means adopting any number of innovations, including wind-aided technologies.

The European Space Agency (ESA) released its annual Space Environment Report in March with its Space Debris Office.

NaFarm Foods, an agricultural business in Kaduna, Nigeria, has won the prestigious 2025 Zayed Sustainability Prize in the Food category for its solar food dryer.

To better understand a promising new development in the certification of organic products, it's good to take a quick look at how the familiar term “certified organic” came into being.