Climate change causes more than one-third of global heat-related deaths each year according to a new research. Seventy scientists assessed heat deaths in 732 cities from 1991 to 2018 andContinue Reading
Researchers studying the impacts of a major coal mine fire in Australia which lead to subsequent air pollution, found children who were in utero at the time were more likelyContinue Reading
Humans’ combustion of fossil fuels (CO2) is shrinking the stratosphere — the layer of air above the troposphere, in which we all live — which will potentially affect the satellitesContinue Reading
A solar power company, Navisun, has just added a couple of solar projects to a special new “pollinator-friendly” solar initiative it has launched in Massachusetts. Navisun worked closely with expertContinue Reading
The British biotech company Oxitec is moving ahead with its controversial plan to release hundreds of millions of gene-hacked mosquitoes, an experimental new form of targeted pest control, in theContinue Reading
The planet, as you may have heard, is in pretty bad shape. But the immense scale of the threats posed by global climate change and human-induced biodiversity loss could beContinue Reading
Radioactive fallout from the military’s hundreds of above-ground nuclear bomb tests in the middle of the 20th century provide an extra seasoning to the honey that comes the southeast UnitedContinue Reading
“Plastic is the new acid rain.” New modeling that was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that 84% of airborne microplastics in theContinue Reading
