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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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.
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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SOLAR POWER FROM STREETWEAR
A new material works like a luminescent solar concentrator and can be applied to textile fibers. Thus jackets, T-shirts. etc.[…]
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NOXIOUS NITROGEN
Growing use of nitrogen fertilizers in the production of food worldwide is increasing atmospheric concentrations of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse[…]
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WONDERFUL WIND
The US could double or even quadruple the installed wind power capacity with little change to system-wide efficiency, and the[…]
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MELTING ARCTIC ICE
stock image Sag River emptying into Prudhoe Bay, Beaufort Sea Increased heat from Arctic rivers is melting sea ice in[…]
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WONDERFUL WOOD
Image: UBC Media Relations via Flickr Buildings are currently the source of about one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Wooden[…]
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