A three-month-old Hawaiian monk seal was reportedly found dead in an abandoned lay net off O’ahu. NOAA records one of the highest entanglement rates of any pinniped.

A balcony that fits two chairs will not fit a vegetable bed. It will, however, take a vertical garden a foot and a half across that holds twenty plants, because the growing space runs upward instead ...

The deal with injection wells is that the waste stays down there. Fracking produces billions of gallons of water laced with heavy metals and radioactive material, chiefly radium-226, and states ...

Before buying anything, find out what your humidity actually is. A hygrometer costs about fifteen dollars, and the EPA’s guidance is specific: keep indoor relative humidity below 60 percent and ...

There is one kitchen appliance where getting it wrong can kill someone, and this is it. Botulinum spores survive boiling water indefinitely. They are destroyed only at 240 to 250°F, a temperature no ...

Face care gets all the scrutiny. Body care gets whatever was on offer, in a plastic bottle, from a brand nobody checked. That is odd when you consider the surface area involved, and it is why the good ...

Every stand mixer review talks about wattage and bowl capacity. Almost none tell you that the beater churning through your dough is coated in nylon, or that some of these machines ship with a plastic ...

Most people start shopping for a hair serum about two years after they first noticed the problem, which is roughly two years too late. Thinning is easier to slow than to reverse, and the plant-based ...

If you eat plant-based, building an emergency food stash is harder than it looks. Grab the best-selling 30-day survival bucket and the label often reads whey, cheese powder, or egg solids — the part ...

When the days get short, a lot of us feel it — lower energy, heavier sleep, a dip in mood. For some people that’s full seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a form of depression tied to reduced winter ...

Store-bought plant milk is convenient, but it comes with recurring cost, single-use cartons, and a long list of gums and additives. A nut milk maker lets you make fresh almond, oat, cashew, or soy ...

What if the solution to two of the most pressing crises of our time was hiding in plain sight, right above the water we’ve been struggling to protect? That’s exactly what California discovered through ...