Evan Nicole Brown

Fabric dyes are a toxic problem. These beautiful alternative colors are made out of food waste

This designer developed a safer, simpler, and healthier solution to conventional fabric dye—using scraps of old fruits and veggies.

Fabric dyes are a toxic problem. These beautiful alternative colors are made out of food waste

A haunting portrait of crisis in the Amazon rain forest

Tommaso Protti spent months photographing the way deforestation and violence are affecting the indigenous peoples of the Amazon and the environment they depend on.

A haunting portrait of crisis in the Amazon rain forest

MIT’s new color-changing ink lets you customize your stuff

With PhotoChromeleon, you can paint things once but change the color whenever you like, with the help of UV light.

MIT’s new color-changing ink lets you customize your stuff

This 30,000-person football stadium is now home to a living forest

The landscape architects and designers behind the project hope it will focus the public’s attention on the crisis of deforestation.

This 30,000-person football stadium is now home to a living forest

The books of today have nothing on the scrolls of 2,300 years ago

New discoveries about the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal how they lasted for so long. For starters? A unique combination of salts and chemicals, developed more than two millennia ago.

The books of today have nothing on the scrolls of 2,300 years ago

KitKat is ditching plastic packaging for paper you can turn into origami

The candy brand, which is hugely popular in Japan, will debut the new packaging design in September.

KitKat is ditching plastic packaging for paper you can turn into origami

Inside the high-rise graveyards of Hong Kong

Architectural photographer Finbarr Fallon has spent years documenting the unusual vertical cemeteries on the space-squeezed island, where a private plot can go for around $230K.

Inside the high-rise graveyards of Hong Kong

Impact

Forests are a big part of the climate solution, but we’re not fixing the problem

London is going to use heat from the Underground to help heat its homes

NGOs need business’s help: Here are the best ways to offer support

Creativity

A shocking 73% of stories on LGBTQ websites are being flagged as unsafe for brands, survey says

Let’s talk about SNL’s most important new cast member: Bowen Yang

The Jennifer Lopez-Constance Wu movie ‘Hustlers’ shows how the world runs on strip club rules

Co.Design

This smart toilet seat monitors your heart health through your gluteus maximus

Another reason to silence your notifications: They could alter your memory

Fabric dyes are a toxic problem. These beautiful alternative colors are made out of food waste

Work Life

When your body calls time-out

What to do if your boss is professionally ‘breadcrumbing’ you

The five-minute email rule completely transformed the way I work