ECO EVOLUTION TODAY

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From biodegradable coffins to tree-sprouting urns, eco-friendly burials offer a way for those who live green to also die green.

As bedbugs invade cities across the U.S., a little knowledge can go a long way in helping you sleep tight and avoid bites.

Earth is usually said to have six or seven continents, depending whether you separate Eurasia into Europe and Asia. While everyone may not agree on where to draw the lines, however, at least the basic layout of landmasses is set in stone, so to speak. Continents do merge and break apart over time, but the process is so slow they've barely seemed to budge throughout human history.

Nonetheless, one plucky little continent managed to hide under our noses until fairly recently. Many scientists now believe Earth has a long-overlooked seventh (or eighth) continent, identified as "Zealandia" in a 1995 study, covering about 1.9 million square miles (4.9 million square kilometers). That's more than half the size of Australia, or roughly big enough to hold seven Texases.

How did we miss something so big? To our credit, it was hiding in something even bigger: the Pacific Ocean.

Ethan Brown spent all his savings to build Beyond Meat. People told him he was crazy for years. Now his company is worth billions, and his product has earned its proper place in the meat aisle.

New plastic PDK can be broken down at a molecular level and come back just as strong to be reused again and again.

Researchers from Michigan State University developed completely transparent solar panels, whic

With local herds booked up through the year, Nevada City officials embark on a mission to employ a few hundred brush-munching goats.

Earth's species are now vanishing at rates unprecedented in human history. That matters for more reasons than many people realize.

Instead of 'climate change' or 'global warming,

See what would happen to Earth if ice continues to melt at the current rate, pushing sea level rise along with it.

Five years ago, Google starting measuring the quantity and value of food being tossed at its facilities. It’s still got a long way to go, but it’s an object lesson in how focusing on a problem can bring solutions.

After reports of icy pens, rotten food and sick animals, 97 orcas and belugas will be released from a Russian 'whale jail.'

Bed bugs have been documented as early as the first century. Originating in tropical climates, bed bugs are excellent hitchhikers, stowing away in luggage, hand

BigPicture photo contest winners celebrate diversity of life while inspiring conservation.

As the South's economy and industry shifted in the mid-20th century, however, rural farmers began moving away for jobs in more urban areas, leaving their kudzu plants behind to multiply unchecked. Spreading at a rate of about 2,500 acres per year, it wasn't long before the plant earned the nickname "the vine that ate the South."

By 1953, kudzu was struck from the USDA's list of suggested cover plants, and in 1970, it was officially declared a weed.

Today, kudzu covers a staggering 7.4 million acres in the South, with the heaviest infestations concentrated in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

A 7-mile bee corridor encompassing 22 wildflower meadows is being planted in a London borough to help pollinators.

The recent UN biodiversity report states that overfishing is a bigger threat to the world's ocean than plastic or acidification.

A shocking new UN report, the most comprehensive assessment of its kind, reveals our devastating impact on nature.

Plant blindess is the "inability to see or notice the plants in one's own environment," which leads to "the inability to recognize the importance of plants."

Supporters had said because it cannot be recycled in Maine, polystyrene has become part of America's pollution and litter problem.

By 2032, everything will on the Danish island of Bornholm will be recycled, repaired or reused.

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