December 2020 – Our Fragile Earth

RAVAGING RECORDS

Benjamin Lizardo photo 2020 is set to be one of the two hottest years ever on record. The storm season[…]

Livestock account for 14.5% of man-made greenhouse gases. 40% is methane produced by cattle digestion. When added to their feed,[…]

The threshold for dangerous global warming will likely be crossed between 2027 and 2042 — a much narrower window than[…]

The Archimedes, a Dutch renewable energy start-up has created an efficient, almost silent small rooftop wind turbine. It comprises three[…]

More plants and longer growing seasons in northern latitudes have converted parts of Alaska, Canada and Siberia to deeper shades[…]

Finding a good way to store solar energy is essential. Battery storage tends to be expensive and impractical for remote[…]

Alaska’s beavers have expanded into many tundra regions, building more and more dams and creating numerous new water bodies. Because[…]

The US plans to hold a world climate summit early in 2021 and seeks to rejoin the Paris accord on[…]

With low oxygen concentrations increasing worldwide in lakes and reservoirs, these ecosystems will produce higher concentrations of methane in the[…]

An easy one-step technique could speed up commercialization of perovskite solar cells made from inexpensive, abundant materials. It promises to[…]