California’s desert trees can’t take the heat: study

Some of the Southwest’s most iconic desert trees are running for their lives in what could be a grim harbinger for more temperate ecosystems across the West. A study in Functional Ecology off…

A clean-energy Texas suburb goes national

AUSTIN, Texas: Real estate developer Douglas Gilliland believes the future of housing lies underground. Amid the unseasonal heat of late February — as neighborhoods across the state hummed with the…

Whole Foods lags in reducing plastic pollution, report says

Customers who shop at Whole Foods are getting their groceries with a side order of plastic, a new report has found. After early progress in removing single-use plastic from its stores, Whole Foods&…

US military seeks to brew jet fuel from the air

The U.S. Air Force is testing new technology that could let brew jet fuel from the air. That’s part of an attempt to create a decentralized supply chain for jet fuel — allowing future America…