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Watch African Cocoa Farmers Taste Chocolate for the First Time

It is a sad fact and indicator of the inequality of our society that many of those who put in the labor may never taste its fruits. A group of cocoa bean farmers in Africa’s Ivory Coast recently had...

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Scania is testing Sweden’s first wirelessly charged hybrid city bus

A wirelessly charged electric city bus is about to hit the streets of Sweden. Scania is launching a sustainable public transit project in the streets of Södertälje, Sweden in June 2016 to see if the...

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VIDEO: Director Kathryn Bigelow takes on the illegal ivory trade in Last Days...

Click here to view the embedded video. WARNING: video contains scenes that may disturb some viewers (but, then again, that’s the point!) Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow has never been one to shy...

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Stealth GPS in fake elephant tusks maps illegal smuggling routes

Using GPS tracking devices, a journalist has mapped the smuggling route of elephant tusks out of Congo’s Garamba National Park. The devices, installed into a pair of fake ivory tusks, helped...

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Chrysler unveils all-electric self-driving Portal car "designed by...

While Tesla and Google are busy developing the technology to make cars drive themselves, other auto companies are dreaming up what those autonomous cars of the future might look like . Fiat Chrysler...

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Endangered Borneo pygmy elephants cruelly slaughtered for ivory

Elephant poaching has ravaged populations in Africa for years – and now poachers are starting to target endangered pygmy elephants in Sabah, Borneo. On New Year’s Eve wildlife officials found the...

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Endangered Borneo pygmy elephants cruelly slaughtered for ivory

Elephant poaching has ravaged populations in Africa for years – and now poachers are starting to target endangered pygmy elephants in Sabah, Borneo. On New Year’s Eve wildlife officials found the...

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"Once-in-a-1000-years" flood batters Maryland town for the second time in two...

Ellicott City, Maryland was devastated in 2016 by a flash flood — the type of event that many people said happens only once in a lifetime. But now, disastrous flooding is happening again. More than...

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United Kingdom moves to ban most of its ivory trade

United Kingdom Secretary of the Environment Michael Gove has introduced a bill to Parliament that would ban the purchase, sale, possession for sale and international trade of ivory . Though the bill...

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Illegal ivory trade continues to thrive in Europe

International rights group Avaaz says the illegal ivory trade is still alive and well in Europe after the group purchased 109 ivory products from 10 countries and found that many of these items were...

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