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Growing water stress drives desalination push in Kenya
Read the full article online at http://www.climatechangenews.com “After a year of severe drought, Kenyan authorities are resorting to desalination to quench the thirst of coastal communities. In the face of an unprecedented emergency, the technology, which is used to remove salt from the sea to produce drinkable water, is now seen as a lifeline by both […]
Norway’s Biggest Oil Company to Build Offshore Wind Farm
Read the full article online at http://www.ecowatch.com “If everything goes to plan, New York City and Long Island will be harnessing the Atlantic Ocean’s strong and dependable winds as a source of renewable energy. Norway’s biggest oil company will be developing an offshore wind farm outside of New York. Statoil submitted the winning bid of $42.5 […]
Bird’s Eye View Video
One of the activities thisspaceshipearth.org does to increase Crew Consciousness is to hold public art projects where citizens can experience and learn about Climate Change. In this video we used drone photography to have people understand what Sea Level Rise might look like and what it might do to their beloved beach in the decades […]
Can These Inventions Save Oceans From Our Plastic Habit?
Read the full article online at http://www.takepart.com “NEWPORT BEACH, California—As a lifelong surfer, Louis Pazos has had an up-close look at the world’s plastics problem. Just about every time he has paddled out at any of his favorite breaks in Southern California, he has ended up swimming among trash bags and other rubbish. But the floating […]
COP21: Malawi’s battle to hold on to forests
Read the full article online at http://www.bbc.com “You’d be pushed to find a more uplifting display of the transformative power of renewable energy. In a one-room house in rural Malawi, the little face of six-year-old Rachel is framed in a soft white halo. On a bamboo mat lies a maths book alongside a bundle of fine twigs […]
There is no reason to ever build another coal plant in the United States
Read the full article online at https://thinkprogress.org “For the second year in a row, wind and solar accounted for roughly two-thirds of new U.S. generating capacity, while natural gas and nuclear made up most of the rest. That’s because right now, in much of the United States, wind and solar are the cheapest form of power available, […]
22 Million Pounds of Plastic Enters the Great Lakes Each Year
Read the full article online at http://www.ecowatch.com “U.S. and Canada together discard 22 million pounds of plastic into the waters of the Great Lakes each year, according to a new Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) study. Most of it washes up along the shores, accounting for 80 percent of the litter found there. Researchers said that […]
Moroccan solar plant to bring energy to a million people
Read the full article online at http://www.bbc.com “A giant plant using energy from the Sun to power a Moroccan city at night will open next month. The solar thermal plant at Ouarzazate will harness the Sun’s warmth to melt salt, which will hold its heat to power a steam turbine in the evening. The first phase will […]
NASA releases eye-popping view of carbon dioxide
Read the full article online at http://climate.nasa.gov “A new NASA supercomputer project builds on the agency’s satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system model to provide one of the most realistic views yet of how this critical greenhouse gas moves through the atmosphere. Scientists have tracked the rising concentration […]
Giant City Cycling Pop-Up Offers Bike Lane Lessons
Read the full article online at https://nextcity.org “How do you get a city more accustomed to biking trails to pedal the streets? Paint a whole lot of lanes. Macon, Georgia, population 150,000, was able to increase cyclist counts nearly tenfold during a one-week pop-up bike network, which at 8 miles, may have been the largest such […]
