Trees are important to fighting the climate crisis but how will they do in a world with less water? Well it turns out they’re already making some changes to survive drier times. As the climate changes, trees are changing with it.
If you are sick, you should isolate yourself new study confirms. By making the choice to stay home, away from others, even if you are only showing A FEW symptoms, you’re helping to stop the spread of COVID-19 and potentially cutting down on how many ICU beds will be needed.
This sounds like the stuff of science fiction but scientists at the University of California are working on a way to create the building blocks organic molecules from bacteria, nanowires, sunlight, carbon dioxide and water like a little replicator.
Today our major greenhouse gas is CO2 but in the past, it was lead. Which isn’t a greenhouse gas but thanks to mining during the 1100s, a lot of it was in the air and man, that could not have been a good time for people breathing it. New ice cores prove that lead pollution was just as bad then as air pollution during the Industrial Revolution which goes to show, we’ve always been pretty bad at this.
The N95 respirator masks are in short supply (along with much of the other needed PPE) and doctors have had to reuse them which puts everyone in danger. Researchers at Duke University have devised a way to decontaminate these masks so that they can safely be reused.
Remember the hole in the ozone layer? It was a big deal in the 80s and 90s. Such a big deal that nations signed the Montreal Protocol and agreed to stop producing chemicals that were destroying the ozone. Well it’s been 33 or so years since that went into effect and good news, the ozone layer has made a come back.
The ocean is pretty harsh when you’re just out there, exposed to the rolling waters. So harsh in fact that it can break down plastics like LEGO bricks which are built tough. We’ve known for a while that the plastic toys could survive for a long time in the sea but scientists have recently discovered that “a long time” could be as much as 1,300 years!
How to stay safe during this time is something that is at the top of everyone’s mind. Of course maintaining physical distance from others and washing your hands are top of everyone’s list but there are other things that you can do to help. Check out this handy PDF on how to protect yourself and your family from coronavirus more.
Covid-19 is pretty serious but the best line of defense is still washing your hands. You should wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds to ensure they’re all the way clean. The easiest way to do this is to sing a song so you get the proper timing. Make it personal with Wash Your Lyrics, the site that will generate a hand washing chart with lyrics from a song you choose.
If you knit or crochet then you’ve probably heard of the temperature blanket. For every week of the year, you take the average temperature, represented by a color of yarn, and do a row of yarn work. At the end of the year, you’ve got a blanket to show for your efforts. They’re also chronicling climate change.
The Infinity Gauntlet Power Bank is a pretty big and bulcky device. It only has 3.000 mAh of juice and it’s plastic, but still: it’s an Infinity Gauntlet Power Bank, which makes this so much cooler than any other regular power bank.
In order to save water, many people have turned to taking shorter (and sometimes less) showers. That’s great but there’s another spot in your bathroom where you could save. Your toilet. Some people just flush less but if that doesn’t seem like something you would be good with, there may be some hope in the future. LESS is a coating that makes the inside of your toilet so slippery nothing can stick to it.
It’s been identified that emissions from cars are a problem. Most people know this and that’s why moving to electric is such an attractive option. But how big of a problem is staggering. Greenhouse gas emissions form diesel vehicles wiped out the gains from renewable energy.
The bees are in trouble and it’s for the good of everyone that they be saved but how to do so is really something that people have been struggling with. One beekeeper has a radical idea. Let them live in more natural habitats, a process called “rewilding”.
I’ve tested various microphones from Blue in the past, but the new Blue Yeti X is hands down the best on the market right now.
