Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Did you know that nearly 2.5 billion tons of food are wasted every year? If we could recoup just half of that, we could end world hunger. Food waste also has a huge environmental impact. Globally, the ...

The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll drop it in water, or your dog will make a chew toy of it, or it’ll reach obsolescence. If you can’t repair it ...

One-third of all food in America is wasted leads to billions of dollars lost each year, according to a new Gallup survey on the state of food waste in America. Until now, researchers have known little ...

Food waste, that scourge that sends more than a third of our food supply to rot and is a major contributor to climate change, seems like it should be easy to address. Waste less food, advocates cry, ...

In the U.S., more than a third of the food supply goes uneaten. The waste happens at multiple levels in the production and supply chain and is a big contributor to climate change. Food that ends up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. Over the years, the conversations we’ve been having about ...

When the Environmental Protection Agency released its plan earlier this month for addressing marine litter, it named five Asian nations—China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam—as ...

“Regardless of whether you are for or against nuclear power, and no matter what you think of nuclear weapons, the radioactive waste is already here, and we have to deal with it.” That’s Gerald S.

From old cellphones to broken refrigerators and discarded e-cigarettes, global electronic waste has reached record highs and is growing five times faster than rates of recycling – bringing a host of ...

Your smartphone begins life neatly packed into a well-designed box. Chances are it will end its days in a more ignominious manner. Assuming it doesn’t end up rattling around in a junk drawer, it will ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Since early 2016, I have traveled to six major cities around the world ...