Ensia

Ensia is a magazine showcasing environmental solutions in action. It's based at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Here’s what you need to know about carbon pricing

September 21, 2018Climate Change

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.

Energy and food together: Under solar panels, crops thrive

June 8, 2018Environment

Coatepeque Lake is seen from a road in the town of El Congo, El Salvador, Sept. 6, 2017. The color of the water in the Coatepeque lake has changed due to the proliferation of Cyanobacteria and non-identified minerals.

Around the world, the environment is finally getting its day in court

April 23, 2018Environment

After decades of work, Americans may soon be eating genetically engineered salmon

July 4, 2017Food

Figuring out why certain soils keep plant parasites at bay could be a boon for agriculture around the globe

October 13, 2016Environment

Small farmers from around the world learn how they can grow far more food

August 23, 2016Development

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.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.

Paying more attention to the weather could help stretch our existing water supplies

June 14, 2016Environment

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.

A European honey bee carries pollen back to its hive.

With pollinators in decline around the world, conservationists turn to traditional farmers for answers

February 29, 2016Environment

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.

Scientists think GMO crops may help us deal with climate change

January 12, 2016Environment

Roger Deal is trying to figure out how plants remember drought. An assistant professor of biochemistry and genetics at Emory University, Deal says most plants have a kind of memory for stress. When experiencing water shortage, for example, plants close the holes in their leaves, called stomata, to reduce water loss from their tissues. This […]

As apps and online tools connect users with the outdoors, we walk a fine line between enhancing and degrading nature

January 4, 2016Environment

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?