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SPACE, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE REAL MEANING OF THEORY
Read the full article online at http://www.newyorker.com “I used to be an astronaut, a spacewalker on the International Space Station. Naturally, most of my fifteen-year crew career was spent on the ground, working with engineers to get the Station built and fully crewed for scientific research, but the day-in, day-out flow of this ground work […]
The World’s Disappearing Sand
Read the full article online at http://www.nytimes.com “MOST Westerners facing criminal charges in Cambodia would be thanking their lucky stars at finding themselves safe in another country. But Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, who is half British and half Spanish, is pleading with the Phnom Penh government to allow him back to stand trial along with three Cambodian […]
Hurricane Matthew Took A Big Bite Out Of Southeastern States’ Beaches
Read the full article online at http://www.npr.org “Beaches in the Southeastern U.S. took a tremendous beating last month from Hurricane Matthew. The U.S. Geological Survey has found that the storm washed over and damaged 15 percent of sand dunes on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, 30 percent along Georgia’s coastline and 42 percent of the dunes on […]
World’s First Outside Vacuum Cleaner to Filter Dirty Air
Read the full article online at http://www.ecowatch.com “A Dutch tech startup called Envinity Group has unveiled a giant outdoor vacuum cleaner designed to filter the tiniest toxic specks from the atmosphere. The invention was presented at the Offshore Energy trade fair in Amsterdam on Tuesday. “It’s a large industrial filter about 8 meters (26 feet) long, made […]
NASA: Earth Is Warming at Rate ‘Unprecedented in 1000 Years’
Read the full article online at http://www.ecowatch.com “Another day, another dire warning about the global climate emergency. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) top climate scientist announced Tuesday that the Earth is warming at a pace not seen in at least the past 1,000 years, making it “very unlikely” that global temperatures will stay below […]
App assesses climate change contributions per car
Read the full article online at http://www.springwise.com “Consumers looking to buy a new car can now use MIT’s newest app, CarbonCounter, to check the carbon footprints of 125 cars currently on the road. The number of renewable transport options is growing, with new ride sharing services using electric smart scooters and solar-powered cars using moss to […]
