Ensia is a magazine showcasing environmental solutions in action. It's based at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
As the world weighs strategies for keeping climate change in check, more and more countries, communities and businesses are embedding the cost of carbon into the goods and services that produce it.
In the hills north of San Francisco, a new form of farming is taking root. It's called biointensive farming, and it has the potential to give small farmers a much bigger impact on the global food supply.
New York City drew the reservoir down to an unprecedented level last winter — but only because forecasting told city official that it would soon be able to refill with an unprecedented amount of snowmelt.
The crisis over the death of pollinators is not unique to the US. But around the world, old techniques are being revived to save bees, butterflies and other pollinators on the very of collapse.
Some plants do better at responding to drought the second time around. Scientists want to figure out how they "remember" — and if there's something we can do for other types of plants to give them a similar benefit.
Smartphone apps are becoming increasingly indispensable when we interact with nature. Websites too. But what's all that technology doing to our relationship with nature?
Goods and resources move across the global market — raw materials to factory, finished goods from factory to market. But all that moving comes at a cost to the environment.
That eco setting seems great in theory, but many consumers turn away from it, using more energy-intensive savings and actually doing the opposite of what the feature was intended for.
Meat consumption is set to rise dramatically over the next 10 years. But not all meat has the same environmental impact.
The salt marshes are an invaluable resources for protecting endangered species.
Why do the merits or demerits of GMOs grab more headline space than systemic food and agriculture concerns? Food systems researcher Maywa Montenegro breaks down the debate.