Molten iron at the ThyssenKrupp steelworks on January 17, 2018 in Duisburg, Germany. Modern societies would be impossible without mass-scale production of many man-made materials. We could have an ...
Few things grip the human imagination quite like a civilization that was once great - building cities, writing laws, trading ...
THE prison door opens, light streams in, and a harsh voice says: “You are free. You can go!” “Free?” exclaims the prisoner. “What do you mean, free? Where am I to go?” “You are released, the door is ...
Why it matters: Most discussions surrounding climate change and humanity's environmental impact focus on factors like ice cover and global average temperatures. However, a recently published ...
Lester Brown, president and founder of the Earth Policy Institute, argues for an aggressive increase in renewable energy production, better energy-efficiency standards and a return to human-centered ...