Our Fragile Earth – Page 105 – Climate Crisis Blog

LOWER TRUCK EMISSIONS

Ways to make roads stiffer are already available and could improve heavy vehicles’ gas mileage at little to no cost,[…]

The view from my porch Apparently as the Earth warms natural ecosystems such as freshwaters will release more methane than[…]

An important gene in plants could help agricultural crops collaborate better with underground fungi and help them absorb phosphorus. This[…]

The South Pole has warmed by about 1.8 degrees Celsius over the past 30 years at a rate of +0.6[…]

General anesthesia uses volatile halogenated gases and nitrous oxide to knock patients out. Very little is metabolized, so when patients[…]

The Trump administration has proposed opening up most of Alaska’s Western Arctic reserve for fossil fuel drilling. The plan would[…]

Simply labelling a product as ‘eco-friendly’ isn’t enough. Encouraging shoppers to view themselves as ‘green’ and ‘eco-friendly’ makes them more[…]

With U.S. markets slaughtered by COVID-19, Congress authorized the Federal Reserve to lend directly to many companies by buying up[…]

Climate experts used to project it wouldn’t be possible to decarbonize the electric grid until 2050—and that moving to fully[…]

The Siberian town of Verkhoyansk (typically one of the coldest spots on Earth) has apparently reached 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, 32[…]