SOLAR STORAGE
Finding a good way to store solar energy is essential. Battery storage tends to be expensive and impractical for remote[…]
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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.
BALEFUL BEAVERS
Alaska’s beavers have expanded into many tundra regions, building more and more dams and creating numerous new water bodies. Because[…]
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MOVING FORWARD
The US plans to hold a world climate summit early in 2021 and seeks to rejoin the Paris accord on[…]
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LOWER OXYGEN LEVELS
With low oxygen concentrations increasing worldwide in lakes and reservoirs, these ecosystems will produce higher concentrations of methane in the[…]
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ULTRAFAST SOLAR SPRAY
An easy one-step technique could speed up commercialization of perovskite solar cells made from inexpensive, abundant materials. It promises to[…]
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CALIFORNIA CASUALTY
The economic costs of California wildfires in 2018 totaled more than $150 billion (about 0.7 percent of the entire U.S.[…]
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STERILIZING WITH SOLAR
A new portable solar-powered device harnesses the sun’s energy generating steam efficiently at high temperatures and pressures even in hazy[…]
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GOING, GOING, GONE
Climate change could lead to irreversible sea level rise as temperatures continue to rise and the Greenland ice sheet continues[…]
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Most of us know that replacing an old incandescent lightbulb with new LED lighting saves energy and money. To mitigate[…]
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ANTARCTIC MELT
Weather systems responsible for transporting moisture from the tropics to temperate regions in the Southern Hemisphere have been gradually shifting[…]
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