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environmental sustainability

At Lincoln Laboratory’s Defense Fabric Discovery Center, Erin Doran demonstrates how reflective fibers can be woven into textiles. Such fibers could function as indelible, scannable labels to easily sort fabrics for recycling.

Fiber “barcodes” can make clothing labels that last

These new bioplastic straws made using potato starch and lignin are strong in water but still biodegrade.

This starchy bioplastic could make soggy paper straws a thing of the past

Wastewater treatment facility

As city populations soar, wastewater treatment struggles to find sustainable solutions

Robotic bees and roots offer hope of healthier environment and sufficient food

Large web of the group-living spider Cyrtophora citricola

Using spiders as environmentally-friendly pest control

Tree growing on city street

More trees can reduce city deaths

“It would be really exciting to think a little bit more creatively about how we can as a community get ready for that kind of whiplash of different challenges and different extremes that we might not be anticipating in detail,” said Jenny Suckale, an assistant professor of geophysics in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, during a Jan. 18 webinar. (Image credit: Getty Images)

What we can learn from California’s deadly storms

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