Global warming has increased the number of extreme weather events around the world by 400% since the 1980s. Countries know how to stop the damage from worsening: stop burning fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy, electrify transportation and industry, and reduce the carbon intensity of agriculture. But none of this is happening fast enough... Continue Reading →
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 →
Is Bamboo Plastic Safe & Sustainable?
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 →
Our World in Data (Climate Tool)
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 →
New Year's resolutions are a tricky business. They are obligations we put on our future selves to behave. You probably don't like people telling you what to do. You probably especially don't want to hear from that young immature version of yourself who did such a bad job with last year's resolutions. So scrap all... Continue Reading →
The Only New Year’s Resolution You’ll Ever Need
A 15-Million-Year-Old Sedimentary Deposit in an Ancient Idaho Lakebed May Help Us Prepare for the Next 20–30 Years In the past 100 years, “we’ve experienced more drastic climate change than any other human has ever experienced. There’s no analogy in human society,” says Hong Yang, the 2022–2023 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow. Since we... Continue Reading →
Looking to the Past to Understand the Future of Climate Change
It may seem like 2022 was such a slog it felt more like three years instead of one — something about the pandemic has warped time perception — but even so, on geological timescales, it was a blip. Still, the industrial policies of human civilization have long-lasting impacts, especially when it comes to our influence... Continue Reading →
2022 was a historic year for climate change reform — and for natural disasters
In the Horn of Africa, a climate-fueled food catastrophe looms. . This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. In Torchia, Kenya, if there’s a ring around the sun, it will rain. If the gude bird sings in descending notes, the skies will open.... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 