How should you wash your clothes to be most eco friendly? Turns out it’s on cold water in quick cycles. This not only is better for the environment in a bunch of ways but it helps your clothing last longer. And considering most fashion is fast fashion these days, those clothes need all the help they can get.
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The key to a more sustainable future isn’t just in producing less waste, it’s finding ways to use the waste so that we do create, preferably by transforming it into new products that we can utilize. Engineers have discovered a way to give new life to waste carbon dioxide.
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Plants are really good at getting energy from the sun. It’s kind of their whole thing. Although we can sort of copy the process, photosynthesis hasn’t been seen as a viable source of energy because it cannot convert green light making it not a candidate for technical applications but that may be changing as a research team has been successful in creating a process that fills this gap.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from, you need water to live. This is true for every living being on the planet for the most part. If the climate crisis is not slowed down, then more people will be living under “water stress” and that’s very bad news.
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Seasonal allergies getting you down? Seem like you’re dealing with them longer than you did in past years? Well it’s not in your head. Allergy season really is lasting longer and getting worse thanks to the climate crisis.
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Air pollution is a big issue in today’s world and it’s greatly agreed upon that we need much less of it. Scientists have found a new way to fight the issue with better filters designed with the help of machine learning.
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When’s the last time you thought about Earth Day? Once you’ve exited primary school, it’s not really a day that comes up a lot. Maybe the Google doodle reminds you with a cool image or even a game but most people don’t think about it. But maybe we should take greater notice of it because places that do have better environmental outcomes than areas that don’t.
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One of the issues that is often brought up in the climate crisis discussion is the cost associated with making changes to more climate friendly technologies and practices. It’s just too much money! But as it turns out, a new study has revealed by not making these changes, the economy will lose money. Like a lot of it.
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Everyone is agreement that planting trees is a good idea but urban areas are having trouble meeting goals. Not because they’re not planting, but because the trees are removed before they can reach maturity. Finding a way to overcome this issue is key to meeting environmental targets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Read MoreThe jury is in, electric cars actually do produce less emissions than standard vehicles. Data was collected from 59 different regions and then analyzed. The answer was clear. Electric cars were producing less CO2.
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