June 2023 – Our Fragile Earth

PREVENTING FOOD WASTE

Food spoilage is a huge driver of food waste, also accelerating the spread of disease through microbes that cause food[…]

The world’s biggest development banks agreed to funnel their financial support to businesses, promising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But[…]

Virtual power plants may save the Grid. Networks of thousands of home-based batteries could mean a cleaner, more reliable electricity[…]

Ecological collapse is likely to start sooner than previously believed with tipping points amplifying and accelerating one another. In some[…]

Most of the 1.4 billion tons of food thrown away each year worldwide goes to landfills. Rotting, it pollutes water[…]

Carbon stocks buried deep underground are vulnerable to climate change with implications for mitigating global warming through the natural carbon[…]

States need to figure out how to clean up and decarbonize their existing oil refineries today and plan for a[…]

Hundreds of thousands of fish washed up dead along Texas beaches over the weekend as weather, water, and temperature conditions[…]

Lightweight and flexible, crystalline silicon solar cells could power airships and drones, or be easily integrated into electric vehicles and[…]

The heat index—which combines temperature with humidity—-soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit across much of Puerto Rico on June 5th, with[…]