BLASTED FOSSIL FUEL BOOM
The U.S. is producing energy at a pace never seen before and from a broad mix of sources and locations[…]
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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.
PROMISING PLASTICS
Photo: new iPhone example A new sustainable method makes high-performance plastics from agricultural leftovers. This novel method for creating polyamides[…]
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GREENLAND GLACIER MELT
The intrusion of warm ocean water beneath Greenland’s Petermann Glacier is the culprit in the accelerated melting it has experienced[…]
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SALVAGING SEAFOOD WASTE
Several million tons of this seafood waste (exoskeletons of lobsters, crabs, and shrimps) is dumped each year. Its abundant organic[…]
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CARBON DIOXIDE AND CRACKS
Soil stores 80 percent of carbon on earth. With increasing cycles of drought that crucial reservoir is cracking and breaking[…]
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GLITTERY GOLD RECOVERY
Over 1 billion electronic devices could be discarded annually in the US a decade from now, but these could become[…]
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POLLEN PROBLEMS
Some 35,000 to 60,000 U.S. emergency department visits for asthma each year may be linked to oak, birch, and grass[…]
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A NEW SOURCE OF ENERGY A nanoscale device harnessing the hydroelectric effect can harvest electricity from evaporation of fluids with[…]
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CLIMATE CHANGE CONCERN
A survey of Australian university Generation Z students (born between 1995 and 2010) found climate change their number one environmental[…]
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BOUNTIFUL BLUE-GREEN ALGAE
Researchers have used non-toxic blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for a new protein, coaxing the microalgae to produce ‘meat[…]
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