
Satellite images show an illegal road threatens the Amazon
Satellite images presented that an illegal road through the Brazilian Amazon's protected land is about to connect...

Michigan plans to build the first EV charging road in U.S.
Last month, State Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that the state of Michigan has announced an ambitious plan...

Used face masks could be repurposed for making roads
A recent study published in the journal Science of The Total Environment has revealed that discarded, single-use...

A company in Ghana is turning plastic bags into roads
Only two percent of plastic trash in Ghana is recycled, according to a video from the World Economic Forum (WEF)...

Peru passes legislation to let roads slice through remote Amazon area
Part of Peru's Amazon rainforest could be under threat due to a recently passed law. The move would allow roads...

New 1 km solar road opens in Jinan, China
China is getting in on the solar road-building action. A one-kilometer stretch of solar highway developed by Qilu...

Singapore is banning all new private vehicles from its roads
The government of Singapore, one of the densest countries in the world, has announced that the number of private...

UK tests cheaper, longer-lasting roads made with recycled plastic
Around 24.8 million miles of roads crisscross the surface of Earth. And hundreds of millions of barrels of oil...

France officially opens world's first solar panel road
France's Minister of Environment Ségolène Royal has officially opened the world's first solar road this week...

Humanity's footprint is weighing down the planet with 30 trillion tons of junk
Everyone knows that humanity has an enormous footprint on the planet - but few of us have thought to ask just how...

Repaired sinkhole in Japan is sinking again
Earlier in November a sinkhole that ravaged a five-lane intersection in the city of Fukuoka, Japan was rapidly...

Human construction projects could wipe out the world's last wild tigers
A new report from WWF reveals that tiger habitats in Asia could be devastated by planned infrastructure that would...

Self-driving car lane envisioned for commute between Vancouver and Seattle
Self-driving cars could revolutionize the way we commute, but city planners and governments will first need to...

Sweden opens one of the world's first electric roads
Sweden is making headlines for a brilliant environmentally conscious move: electric roads. They just opened a...

Brilliant diamond highway interchange eliminates dangerous lefthand turns
Just about every time we drive, we're forced to make left turns, risking head-on or 90-degree collisions with cars...