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Apr 17, 2012 05:07 PM ET // Alice Truong
Instead of throwing out his rotting food, Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler decided to make art out of it. One Third is his project looking at food waste (the name is derived from a U.N. study that found a third of the world's food goes to waste) juxtaposed against a backdrop of 925 million peopl...
Dec 27, 2010 10:11 AM ET // Alyssa Danigelis
Kiss plastic trash goodbye. British engineers have new tech to recycle it all.
Dec 6, 2010 09:07 PM ET // Alyssa Danigelis
Microprocessors and Bluetooth signals keep one eye on your bank account, and the other one on you.
Feb 28, 2012 08:13 AM ET // Tim Wall
Those convenient and tidy plastic cups can't be recycled and are collecting in America's landfill.
Aug 1, 2011 09:58 AM ET // Tim Wall
Scrubbing wastewater of nitrogen is a potential business boon waiting to happen; it would help reduce energy use as well as air and water pollution.
Jun 15, 2011 09:12 AM ET // Tim Wall
Oyster mushrooms can rid the world of the diaper disposal problem. Next question: would you eat these bottom feeders?
Jul 22, 2011 10:37 AM ET // Katherine Noyes
Forget those wimpy plastic substitutes -- this is the only straw you really need.