GLACIERS—GOING, GOING, GONE?
91% of glaciers across Svalbard in the Arctic (a region experiencing warming up to seven times faster than the global[…]
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Author: Gail McCormick
Gail McCormick has been a leader in climate change activism for over 40 years. Her relevant award-winning art has been shown in museums, university galleries, and at the landmark UN Rio Conference. As a board member of HealthLink, she helped eradicate antiquated Massachusetts coal power plants and has been chair of Sustainable Arlington, MA. She has a Master’s degree from Columbia University. Follow her on Twitter @GailMcCormick20.
FABULOUS FABRIC
A new wearable fabric can help people survive the impacts of massive heat. It stayed 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than[…]
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MORE MEGADROUGHTS
Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate. There was a worrying increase[…]
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONSTRUCTION
Construction materials like concrete and plastic could lock away billions of tons of carbon dioxide. While bio-based plastics could take[…]
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WILDFIRES COST AND INSURANCE
Estimates indicate Los Angeles wildfires will be the costliest U.S. natural disaster–losses so far between $135 billion and $150 billion.[…]
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IMPROVED BATTERY STORAGE
Phones, devices, and car batteries rely on metals like lithium and cobalt, using intensive, invasive mining so discontinuing metal-based solutions[…]
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PLANTING TREES
Planting the wrong trees in the wrong places can diminish their cooling benefits. In hot, compact cities, narrow species and[…]
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GATHERING GOLD
A new method extracts gold from electronics waste, then uses the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon[…]
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GLOBAL FREEZING DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING
A polar vortex is expected to bring snow, ice and brutal cold to most of the U.S. as frigid air[…]
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SUPERIOR SOLAR PANELS
One way to increase solar cell efficiency is to change their chemical makeup. Current cells use silicon, a long-lasting inorganic[…]
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