Boom in space tourism threatens to boost the amounts of space junk and climate emissions: NASA, CC BY Commercial companies are increasingly becoming involved in transporting astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), as well as other activities in orbit. Some, such as Houston-based Axiom Space, eventually want to build their own space stations in …
Fur seals on a remote island chain are exposed to huge amounts of toxic heavy metals – yet somehow, they’re healthy: Juan Fernández fur seals were once hunted for their semi-waterproof fur. Constanza Toro Valdivieso, Author provided Juan Fernández fur seals are so poorly understood that they were considered extinct for nearly a century before …
Scrapping use-by dates could prevent huge amounts of food waste – here’s what else could help: Supermarkets are beginning to remove date labels on fruit and veg to tackle the food waste issue. Adam Melnyk/Shutterstock Before ending up on a European supermarket shelf, an avocado has effectively emitted 1.3 kilograms of carbon into the atmosphere. …
Reducing air travel by small amounts each year could level off the climate impact: Aviation is a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. Free-Photos/Pixabay, CC BY-SA Just before the pandemic, aircraft engines were burning one billion litres of fuel a day. But then the number of daily civil aviation flights fell from 110,000 to …
The internet consumes extraordinary amounts of energy. Here’s how we can make it more sustainable: Could solar power provide an alternative energy source for the web? Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Around 4.6 billion people use the internet every day. In fact, 350,000 tweets have been sent in the past minute. We tend to think of …
Toxic waste dumping in the Gulf of Guinea amounts to environmental racism: On the outskirts of Accra there are huge electronic waste disposal sites, known locally as Sodoma and Gomorra. Photo by Maniglia Romano/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Toxic waste and electronic waste (e-waste) is generated from a wide range of industries – such as health, …
Poland’s abortion ruling amounts to a ban – but it will not end abortion access: Enormous protests are taking place across Poland in response to a new ruling striking down part of the 1993 abortion law – something that effectively amounts to a legal ban in a country that already took a very restrictive approach …
Kenya’s coast is losing huge amounts of seagrass. But all isn’t lost: Seagrasses support a wide variety of life Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Image The UN environmental programme has released a report warning that fishing trawlers, seaweed farming, and tourism off the coast of Kenya is threatening the survival of seagrasses. Moina Spooner, from …
South Africa in the news: Small children carry high amounts of coronavirus; safely opening colleges will be a challenge: Children younger than five carried major amounts of coronavirus in their upper respiratory tract raising new questions about whether kids can infect others.: “South Africa” – BingNews Coronavirus – South Africa: Total number of COVID-19 cases …
Gabon’s large trees store huge amounts of carbon. What must be done to protect them: Ivanov Gleb/Shutterstock Large trees are the living, breathing giants that tower over tropical forests, providing habitat and food for countless animals, insects and other plants. Could these giants also be the key to slowing climate change? The Earth’s climate is …
How smugglers are shifting staggering amounts of contraband despite the pandemic: On July 1, Italian police made the largest amphetamine seizure in the world. At the port of Salerno, just south of Naples, they used chainsaws to open large cylinders of paper and industrial machinery that were inside shipping containers from Syria and found 14 …
Crop leftovers can store huge amounts of carbon: insights from Uganda: A sample of biochar NCAT CAES/Flickr Farmers in countries like Uganda could help fight climate change – and improve their crop yields – by adding agricultural waste to their fields. The process removes carbon from the atmosphere and stores it in the soil. It’s …
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