A Canadian startup produces cheap, clean, and green hydrogen in an abandoned oil well. The innovation could disrupt the energy industry and accelerate efforts to reverse global warming.

In the past century, disease patterns in the world have changed dramatically. Our ancestors dealt mostly with infectious diseases—illnesses cause by germs. Better hygiene, vaccinations, and antibiotics have pushed back infectious diseases.

Our health depends on drinking water. But new research shows that not all water is the same. The search for healthy water and a major solution to better health begins in Austria and leads to the state of Washington.

Anthropologist Gina Bria discovered a major solution to dehydration while researching desert dwellers. Bria found that indigenous tribes in Mexico have used chia seeds to gain energy and strength for thousands of years. It is not a coincidence that ‘chia’ means ‘strength’ in the Mayan language!

Aspirin has been one of the most popular pharmaceutical drugs of the past one hundred years. It is a synthetic derivative of the natural substance salicylic acid. It was first isolated from the bark of willow trees (Salix) from which it got its name.

The biggest challenge battery innovators face is to design a reliable mass production process. Perfection is a tricky thing in the battery industry. Many mass-produced goods tolerate a reasonable flaw level. Batteries are very vulnerable: they either work or they do not.

The clean energy revolution hinges on dirty and dangerous batteries. That is the paradox which innovation and industry must overcome as automobile makers are racing to completely shift their production to electric cars.

Europe needs clean and green hydrogen fast. Hydrogen Europe is the leading organization representing companies and stakeholders that are committed to accelerating the European hydrogen industry.

The Ukraine invasion has added a new geopolitical dimension to the challenge of global warming. Europe needs to discontinue the import of gas from Russia as soon as possible.

In a new factory at the outskirts of Venlo, The Netherlands, close to the border with Germany, an elevator dumps a large bag of hay into a giant mixer. The dried grass is absorbed in a slowly turning brown slurry containing urban waste—mostly recycled paper and packaging.

Paolo Lugari has a plan for humanity. And he’s convinced it’s the only plan that will ensure human survival on Planet Earth: We need to plant trees. Many trees!

Joost Wouters is an unusual farmer. He does not have a tractor to prepare the soil. There is no barn on his farm. He does not even have land. Wouters grows seaweed in the ocean. He is a blue farmer.

For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap it in two. Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together, or shall we undo its dangling braids still further, to see what we might weave from them?

Bill Moses likes playing with fire. Cold fire, that is: fermentation. Like our ancestors did for thousands of years, Moses experiments with the fermentation of foods to provide nutrition and preservation. He first started a winery in Ojai, California, turning organic grapes into healthy wine.

Why is yoghurt the best extinguishing agent when your tongue is on fire with chili peppers? That was the question that Swedish inventor Mats Nilsson asked himself when he was looking for a healthy alternative for flame retardants.

Years ago, American neurologist David Perlmutter discovered an interesting connection among his patients. He determined that many of his patients with neurological problems also showed symptoms of stomach and intestinal problems.

In 1880—four years after he had invented the telephone—Alexander Graham Bell created another invention that he himself considered his greatest. Today, almost 140 years later, that invention stands to change the Internet and the online world that we know in profound ways.

“Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowering.”

At one point in his career, Zach Bush, MD was so disillusioned with medicine, with his inability to understand the real causes of disease and to make his patients fundamentally healthier, that he decided to extend his training to hospice care. He felt he could really help people ease into the process of dying. Helping people through the death transition, he experienced death as not just an end.

It is a secret, oncologists rarely share with their patients: Around 25 percent of all cancers are currently considered untreatable, and the prognosis is worse for colon (colorectal) and lung cancers, with half of these immune to chemotherapy.