IMPENDING DISASTERS
Partial photo: Egor Vikhrey The federal government spends about $46 billion per year on recovery from disasters–seven times the level[…]
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PROMISING PLANT USAGE
Partial photo:Roberto Carlos Roman Don Leftover crops release carbon back into the atmosphere, mostly through decomposition, but turning agricultural waste[…]
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GROWING GRIEF
Sunflower photo: Nataly Alhimova Wildfires are bigger (starting earlier in the year); heat waves are more frequent; seas are warmer;[…]
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CREATING CLOTHING FROM ALGAE
Partial photo: Junko Nakase 3D printing can be used to make a tough, sustainable material from algae that could be[…]
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MORE FREQUENT FLOODING
Partial photo: Willian Justen de Vasconcellos The “Third Pole” of the Earth,the high mountain ranges of Asia,bears the largest number[…]
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DIRECT AIR CAPTURE OF CO2
Use of zeolites (minerals containing mainly aluminum and silicon oxides) could help diminish the CO2 problem. Scientists have designed an[…]
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GLACIERS: GOING, GOING, GONE
Partial photo: Chirag Saini Almost all the world’s glaciers (around 220,000 in total) are becoming thinner and losing mass, and[…]
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RADIANT COOLING
Image: Based on a photo by Preconscious Eye via Flickr A new radiant cooling system, consisting of tubes embedded in[…]
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FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY INFLUENCE
Emails show that fossil fuel trade groups in Louisiana and New Mexico rallied Democratic governors in opposition to Biden’s executive[…]
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CUTTING EDGE TRANSFORMATION OF ABANDONED OIL WELLS
The U.S, has roughly 3 million abandoned oil and gas wells. One plan is to convert them into conduits for[…]
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