Electric vehicle advocates say the cars ultimately have a smaller carbon footprint than their fossil-fuelled counterparts and could resolve our energy concerns for good. Well, fair enough, but questions arise when we dig into the inner layers of electrical vehicles and see how sustainable their components are. In fact, the batteries that power electric vehicles ...
Global squid fishing increased by 68 percent between 2017 and 2020, according to our international analysis, prompting concerns that much of the international fishing fleet is sidestepping necessary conservation and management. Our study, carried out with colleagues in Australia, Japan, the United States, Chile, and Canada, and published in Science Advances, reveals that almost all ...
Have you ever considered going green? That is, you want to reduce your carbon footprint and make your life more sustainable. Sustainable living is a huge part of being environmentally aware, but it can be hard to know where to begin. Sustainability is so much more than recycling — and in fact, it’s not just ...
Space has become a trash heap. According to NASA, there are more than 27,000 pieces of space junk bigger than the size of a softball currently orbiting Earth, and they are traveling at speeds of up to 17,500 mph, fast enough for a small chunk to damage a satellite or spacecraft like an intergalactic cannonball. ...
The sudden demise of a large, deep, ice-covered Antarctic ice shelf lake has been discovered by a global team of scientists, including several from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. This rare event, chronicled in a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, occurred during the 2019 Antarctic ...
It is important to take up measures that reduce the carbon footprint and make the Earth a better place to live in. Every person, regardless of income level, lifestyle, or location, can do his/her little bit to reduce environmental pollution. This is applicable for those involved in the makeup and grooming industry as well. Switching ...
Plastic undoubtedly is a great invention, but it’s not very eco-friendly. There are myriad uses for it in our everyday lives. There are, on the other hand, many adverse problems associated with it, not the least that it takes a very long time for it to degrade, and it causes a great deal of pollution. ...
Tiny threads of microplastics are showing up in Pacific oysters and razor clams along the Oregon coast — and the yoga pants, fleece jackets, and sweat-wicking clothing that Pacific Northwesterners love to wear are a source of that pollution, according to a new Portland State University study. Britta Baechler, a Ph.D. student in PSU’s Earth, ...
A byproduct of oil and gas production is a large quantity of toxic wastewater called brine. Well-drillers dispose of brine by wastewater injected into deep rock formations, where its injection can cause earthquakes. Most quakes are relatively small, but some of them have been large and damaging. Yet predicting the amount of seismic activity from ...
Scientists, led by the USF College of Marine Science, used NASA satellite observations to discover the largest bloom of seaweed in the world called the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB), as reported in Science. They confirmed that the belt of brown macroalgae seaweed called Sargassum forms its shape in response to ocean currents, based on ...
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