August 2022 – Our Fragile Earth

BETTER BLADES FOR WIND TURBINES

Disposal of unusable wind turbine blades is a problem. By 2050, over two million tons of blade material could be[…]

Photo: Tibet The Tibetan Plateau, known as the ‘water tower’ of Asia, supplies freshwater for nearly two billion people who[…]

Photo: floating artificial leaf in the River Cam University of Cambridge Researchers have developed a new lightweight, flexible device using[…]

Vast swaths of the continental U.S. will experience prolonged and dangerous heatwaves by 2050, with the heat index in places[…]

A Finnish sand battery can store green power for several months at a time in a low-cost, low impact way.[…]

Thawing Arctic hillsides release a significant amount of organic carbon locked in frozen ground for thousands of years but which[…]

New solar panels take on colorful hues while producing energy nearly as efficiently as traditional ones. These days some buildings[…]

Photo: the lake where I live Over the next 30 years the U.S. coast will experience a foot of sea[…]

A giant ‘water battery’ under the Alps could be a game-changer for Europe’s renewable energy. It’s a pumped storage hydropower[…]

Photo: Symbol for Covid More than 58% of human diseases caused by pathogens, like dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika and[…]