We’ve all heard reports about how billions and billions of pieces of plastic are choking the world’s oceans. If you’re worried, you’re not alone; surveys show that oceanic plastic pollution is a top consumer concern. In recent years, there has been a rise in the use of bamboo and other plant-based additives in plastics. Can... Continue Reading →
Bravo! - Inside Climate News (&) Katelyn Weisbrod for publishing this... Excellent... Climate change and an environment in peril were visible in many of 2022’s defining moments: record-smashing heat waves in Europe and South Asia, droughts pushing the fragile global food system to its limit and energy and food markets shaken by war in Ukraine. ... Continue Reading →
Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022
Scientists in China have developed a new way to split seawater into hydrogen without using a separate desalination process. . Researchers from Shenzhen University and Nanjing Tech University in China have developed a seawater electrolysis system (SES) for the direct electrolysis of seawater, without side reactions or corrosion. The new method works via self-driven water migration to... Continue Reading →
New electrolyzer to split saltwater into hydrogen
Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the world who dedicate their lives to it, we often have a good... Continue Reading →
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STRONGLY SUGGEST GIVING THIS A WATCH... In what year will the human population grow too large for the Earth to sustain? The answer is about 1970, according to research by the World Wildlife Fund. In 1970, the planet's 3 and a half billion people were sustainable. But on this New Year's Day, the population is... Continue Reading →
Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth’s wildlife running out of places to live
in this New Year…
“In this new year, may you have a deep understanding of your true value and worth, an absolute faith in your unlimited potential, peace of mind in the midst of uncertainty, the confidence to let go when you need to, acceptance to replace your resistance, gratitude to open your heart, the strength to meet your... Continue Reading →