HELPFUL – Our Fragile Earth

PROTECTING AND PERFECTING PLANTS

When farmers apply pesticides to their crops, 30 to 50% end up in the air or soil, not on plants.[…]

Here’s praise for the wealthy funders of ways to deal with climate change: Jeff Bezos Bill and Melinda Gates Michael[…]

Sea grass cultivation doesn’t require artificial fertilizers, pesticides, or fresh water, doesn’t emit CO2, stores carbon in the soil and[…]

A new class of nanostructured materials can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it onto[…]

Oyster farms in Ireland have been found to remove 228% more nutrients than they produce, providing coastal cleanup worth $2[…]

The most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offers a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk[…]

A new hybrid solar cell works in rainy weather by generating electricity from the movement of raindrops sliding on its[…]

SunTrain is designing a method to transport power by rail, moving containerized batteries between solar and wind farms in Colorado[…]

Dense forests of giant kelp absorb CO2 from surface waters, produce oxygen, and provide food and shelter to many marine[…]

Discarded food scraps, stray branches, seashells and many other natural materials are key ingredients in a new system that pulls[…]