Environment & Sustainability

Learn about climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable living practices. CurioAtlas brings together research and solutions shaping the future of our planet.

Would you pay $49 a month to drink recycled wastewater?

One day, you’ll appreciate drinking recycled toilet water.  Urban populations are growing as water supplies are dwindling, often due to worsening droughts. In response, some communities are treating wastewater, rendering it perfectly safe for consumption. It is so pure, in…

Jesse Jackson’s vision for America embraced environmental justice

Peggy Shepard walked into her living room on Tuesday morning when her husband told her Jesse Jackson, the civil rights titan from South Carolina, had died. “Immediately tears started coming,” said Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for…

Malawi’s solar boom is leaving a toxic legacy of lead waste

BLANTYRE, Malawi — On Lagson Gumbo’s side of the stream, BCA is a slum. Running parallel to the trickle of murky water is a narrow, dusty street lined with small, unplastered houses and shops trading in groceries, cheap alcohol and…

New drone unit to investigate illegal waste dumping across England

Government announces tougher measures to tackle unlicensed sites as ‘prolific waste criminal’ is ordered to pay £1.4m A new 33-strong drone unit is being deployed to investigate the scourge of illegal waste dumping across England, the government has announced. The…