July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. Scorching heat, droughts, a disruption of the polar jet stream, and record-high ocean surface temperatures offer just a taste of how climate change is ...

Kelly has over 10 years of experience writing about home design and improvement for many prominent publications. She also spent several years working at a tech startup for an interior design game ...

Sublime Systems uses chemicals instead of heat and other minerals instead of limestone. As with other new technologies, it is more expensive but climate-forward companies like WS Development in Boston ...

Brionna is a writer specializing in home improvement, construction, and real estate topics. She leverages her background as a civil engineer and interior decorator as well as her love for ...

Every year, the world’s coffee drinkers throw out as much as 60 million tons of coffee grounds—and when they end up in landfills, coffee grounds release methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But ...

What if the walls around you weren't just holding up your house — but secretly powering it too? That's the idea behind "living cement," developed by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark. By ...

Nobody knows who did it first or when. But by the 2nd or 3rd century B.C.E., Roman engineers were routinely grinding up burnt limestone and volcanic ash to make cementum: a powder that would start to ...

The 30 billion tons of concrete that the world makes each year have a massive carbon footprint. Cement, the main ingredient, is responsible for around 8% of global emissions—meaning that if it were a ...

More than perhaps any other material, cement is the glue that holds the globalized world together—especially our cities. But producing it requires huge amounts of fossil fuels, and the industry is ...

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