KUROSHIO CURRENT WARMING, A WARNING?
Focus has been on the Gulf Stream slowdown, but other parts of the ocean could be problematic. The Kuroshio Current[…]
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COMPRESSED AIR SOLUTION
Photo: Hydrostar Canadian location Compressed air energy storage (CAES) can store energy on a grid scale and is billed as[…]
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SURPRISE FOR THE NORTHEAST
The Northeastern US is a global warming hotspot; 2 degrees Celsius of summer warming has already occurred. Not only are[…]
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HFC-FREE FRIDGE HASSLE
Pound for pound hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants (HFCs) trap thousands of times more heat than CO2. Increasing global demand for cooling and[…]
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ACCELERATED ARCTIC ICE LOSS
Partial photo: William Justen de Vasconcellos Arctic ice levels logged in the last two years have reached record lows,[…]
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WONDERFUL WHEATGRASS
Photo from Land Institute website Kernza, a wheatgrass, is a distant relative of regular wheat. It doesn’t produce nearly as[…]
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EMISSIONS FROM WATER BODIES
Partial photo: Leon Ephraim Rivers and streams are a large source of greenhouse gases with water pollution making their emissions[…]
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INEXPENSIVE WAVE ENERGY GENERATORS
Photo: Universities of Trento, Bologna and Edinburgh, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa A simple, low-cost energy generator could produce the equivalent[…]
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CLIMATE REFUGEES
Partial photo: Chris Gallagher More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes thanks to climate change impacts—including[…]
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TERRIFIC TRAIN
Photograph: Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon The world’s first battery-electric freight train, the FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive, underwent successful trials in California[…]
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