Wind turbines create a renewable source of energy but it turns out their blades are not easily dealt with when they’ve reached the end of their life and end up in landfills. The race is on to discover a sustainable way to handle these giant blades.
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Cuba has been farming for centuries and despite this, their water is doing really good! Unlike other places where agriculture runoff is a major issue for waterway pollution, Cuba’s water remain remarkably clean and supports sustainable agriculture models.
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Weather and climate are two different things which is why arguments like “Climate change can’t be real because it still snows” are terribly flawed and incorrect. Weather is the immediate conditions of the outside world, climate is the long term patterns of the area. The climate crisis has advanced so much that it is showing up in our general weather patterns.
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The ocean currents look like they’re moving faster. Just one more weird way that the climate crisis is changing our earth. This may not seem like a big deal but it could have some large effects on the world as a whole.
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Permafrost is melting and this is a big problem not just for the infrastructure that has been built over it in some areas, but for the climate in general. As the ice melts, it’s releasing a lot of carbon emissions with it as well as radically changing the landscape.
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Nothing makes an evening more magical than a big group of fireflies turning the area into a star filled sky, right on earth. If you happen to live in am area where you don’t have these magical insects, well, I’m very sorry because they are great. Of course, we all might lose out on them as their numbers are decreasing.
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The UK is getting serious about their zero emissions initiative and has moved up their ban on purchasing new diesel, petrol, or hybrid vehicles from 2040 to 2035 which means people only have 15 more years before it goes into effect.
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There’s another danger caused by the climate crisis that may be all but invisible to many. As things become more dire in communities already feeling the pressure from the crisis, an increase in gender based violence putting many women and girls in developing nations in danger.
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When we talk about the climate crisis it is generally as something that will happen. If we don’t get the emissions in check the temperature will heat up. If we don’t stop emissions then we will have more fires. If we don’t stop emissions then we will have rising sea levels. But these things are already happening. Saint-Louis, Senegal is proof.
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Australia just had one of the most devastating wildfires on record. It burned for a number of days and destroyed hundreds of miles worth of animal and human habitats displacing millions. It is true that Australia often has wildfires and they even had a few really bad ones, but one of the underlying causes of this one may have been climate change and scientists are on a race to find out.
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Houseplants are very popular these days. Mainly for their aesthetic appeal, after all, nothing livens up a space like some green! But also for their health benefits. Cleaner air and maybe a little bit of a boost to your mental state. But are they bad for the environment? Well, the answer is, maybe if you’re not mindful.
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The Doomsday Clock has moved to the closest it’s been to the midnight of civilization in a long time. We are now 100 seconds from midnight and a lot of that danger isn’t due to the strife between world leaders, but due to man made climate change.
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The icecaps are melting and that’s a major problem for a variety of reasons. One being the rising sea levels but another being that losing the reflective poles will make our planet warmer. Some people want to save the ice by geoengineering. Most of their ideas aren’t really feasible but man are they cool.
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NASA has confirmed, the year is over and 2019 is one of the hottest on record. The trend of warmth that we’ve been seeing isn’t a fluke or some sort of anomaly, it’s a real problem that can only be pulled back by real change.
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When it comes to sustainable agriculture, we need to make some changes to keep everyone fed. We currently don’t make enough food for everyone but with some shuffling around, we can exceed what we need without destroying the Earth.
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