Future Technology

With sails covered in solar panels, tanks that run on kitchen waste and an
on-board garden fed by rainwater, this striking vessel has been described as
the world’s “greenest” cruise ship...

By Adele Peters
This article originally appeared on Fast Company and is reprinted with permission.
Electric cars might be sexier. But Ryan Popple, who was an early employee at Tesla, is now convinced that electric buses are more interesting.Slide...

Hydrogen can be devastating , but in the right hands, it can also be awesome. When burned, for instance, it emits only water vapor instead of nasty carbon dioxide that's responsible for much of the climate change we see today.

Last week, researchers announced that six major glaciers in West Antarctica have “passed the point of no return” and have begun “early-stage collapse.” It’s the kind of news we’ve come to expect from climate change, but the stark language and...

Honey bees. (paulrollings / Flickr)
Honey bees are vanishing from hives and neonicotinoids (a type of insecticide) are to blame.
Two neonicotinoids in particular, imidacloprid and clothianidin, are blamed for the population decline in a new study.

Right now, you can install relatively cheap technology on your own roof and power your house, gadgets and even your car. For free! Sorcery? Not so much. The Earth receives more energy from our sun in about one hour than humans consume in an entire...

Broken glaciers in the North Pole. (pranav / Flickr) "It has passed the point of no return." Researcher Eric Rignot of the University of California at Irvine gave a dire warning on the state of the retreating polar ice caps -- nothing can stop it...

A viable technology now exists that will break fossil fuel's stranglehold hold on America and no one is talking about it? Your corporate media hard at work. (The U.S.