UBC researchers are launching the world’s first mushroom-powered waterless toilet, the MycoToilet, at the UBC Botanical Garden on Sept. 26.

Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever happy to see him.

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases.

Most Californians are familiar with earthquakes. But researchers say the state faces an overlooked threat: “supershear” earthquakes that move so fast they outrun their own seismic waves.

The global water cycle has become increasingly erratic and extreme, swinging between deluge and drought, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

If the goal of monitoring our natural resources is to protect the environment, shouldn’t the technology involved be sustainable as well?

The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high environmental, climate and economic costs.

Bees do more than just pollinate plants.

Five well-publicized polar geoengineering ideas are highly unlikely to help the polar regions and could harm ecosystems, communities, international relations, and our chances of reaching net zero by 2050.

The residues that remain when a brewery makes beer or whiskey are called spent grain or brewer’s spent grain (BSG).