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Mic is celebrating Earth Day with an entire week of stories. Over the next few days we’ll be rolling out pieces on hyper-urban farming, the future of construction, the catastrophic environmental costs of the dreaded gender reveal, an optimistic…

The United States military wants to nuke space, but not for the reason that you're thinking (well, not yet at least). This week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that it was giving out three contracts to companies who…

The planet is changing, but it can be hard to visualize from Earth's ground floor. Thankfully, Google Earth is unrolling a new feature that gives us some perspective. Timelapse is a 3-D visualization that shows how different parts of the Earth have…

At this point, pretty much everyone is aware of climate change and the fact that, well, it sucks. The reality is that climate change is already changing your life — and your location plays a huge role in what its continued impact will be. It's hard…

In the tiny town of Chatham, a seaside community on the southeastern tip of Cape Cod, sits the Monomoy Wildlife Refuge. Since 1944, this facility operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service has provided…

While the Biden administration is gearing up to combat climate change, Republicans are gearing up to combat that progress. In a series of leaked phone calls obtained by Grist, it was revealed that the American Legislative Exchange Council — better…

It's only been a couple of weeks since the end of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which celebrates the ancient Israelites' exodus from slavery under the Egyptian pharaohs. It's a holiday which, among other things, traditionally features a somber…

A new sentence is born every day, so here's one for you: Elon Musk put a computer chip in a monkey's brain and now that monkey is really good at Pong. Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that is focused on creating brain-machine interfaces, posted…

Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa wanted to change Amazon for the better. The two employees were members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, a group of workers that pushed the massive corporation with its large and growing carbon footprint to do…

In February, Texas experienced an unprecedented winter storm that saw roads shut down from snowfall and millions left without power as the state's electric grid failed in freezing temperatures. The situation was so bad that the CEO of the state's…

Welcome to Infrastructure Week, for real this time. On Wednesday, the Biden administration revealed the details of a $2 trillion plan to revitalize and improve America's infrastructure. The proposal, referred to as the American Jobs Plan, includes…

Personal protective equipment like masks, gloves, and face shields have kept humans safe through the coronavirus pandemic. However, the items are having the opposite effect on the planet. A new study published Tuesday by Ocean Conservancy, a…

The Jersey Shore, sadly a dumping ground for both toxic pollution and culture, is going to have an opportunity to clean up its reputation and, in turn, the country. On Monday, the Biden administration announced that it will mark off a large swath of…

When the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted visited Liverpool’s Birkenhead Park in 1850, he was surprised to find that the land was enjoyed equally by people from all social classes. “The poorest British peasant,” he’d later write,…

I’ve got 99 problems… and Amazon can fix nearly all of them. The online marketplace is home to gadgets and tools that solve those common, everyday annoyances — and the best part? They usually come at a very reasonable price. I did a little shopping…

The Ever Given is still stuck in the Suez Canal, and it's starting to create something of a global pile-up. The 1,300-feet-long container ship, one of the largest ever built, has been wedged sideways across the narrow water passage since Tuesday,…

While just over one-fourth of the United States has already received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, millions are still waiting for their turn in line — and some are looking…

EasternAustralia has been getting hammered by torrential rain and flooding for the better part of a week now, resulting in tens of thousands of people being forced to leave their homes. Making matters worse, some new eight-legged residents have…

As inhabitants of the planet Earth, we desperately need to address climate change in order to ensure the health of our global ecosystem. The first step just might be dealing with the toxic waste getting dumped into our social media feeds. According…