Rice is so, so good. You might disagree but a huge population of the planet loves it. Too bad that it also has the biggest carbon footprint of any grain. That’s right, rice, grown in paddies all over the world also coughs up a ton of methane. The problem is easy to fix though. The solution? Fish.
Slowly over time all of our batteries are dying. It’s not just in your head that your smartphone doesn’t last as long on a single charge as it used to. Electric cars have the same problem. A new AI method has been developed that give a more accurate reading of battery health making it easier to develop better ones.
You may have recently dragged out your sewing machine to make masks. This is fine and helpful, make extra for donation if you can! Give them to neighbors and other family members. Help people out! But make sure you’re using the right type of fabric for the job.
If you’re on the fence about wearing a mask it’s time to come to the side of putting one on. Scientists aren’t sure if it will help but they are sure it won’t hurt and has been helpful in slowing the spread of other, similar illnesses.
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.
