Here are three Japanese companies with solutions that they hope will help their country cut its food waste in half by 2030, perhaps saving a bit of the planet along the way.

Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.

Every year, the food industry generates up to 8 million tons of crab, lobster, and shrimp shells, many of which are either dumped back in the ocean or end up in landfills. Now, a biomaterials startup called TômTex wants you to wear them instead.

Lee Jeong Lok makes mesmerizing natural landscapes through light painting