Archive for 2018
Hurricane Walaka wipes out a marine wildlife habitat
"One more chink in the wall of the network of ecosystem diversity on this planet is being dismantled."
In China even electric vehicles aren’t all that green
Electric vehicles are on a roll in China with half a million of them sold last year in the country. That’s 10 times more than in 2014. Nor is the market in electric vehicles going to slow down in the
Insects worldwide are facing ‘death by a thousand cuts’
Arthropods, invertebrates including insects that have external skeletons, are declining at an alarming rate.
The collapse of Angkor holds a lesson for today’s cities
"Complex infrastructural networks provide critical services to cities but can be vulnerable to external stressors, including climatic variability."
Cheetahs are ‘sprinting toward extinction’
Only a little over 7,100 cheetahs, the planet’s fastest land animals, have remained in the wild.
WHO: Millions of children die from pollution-related causes
According to the WHO, some 1.7 million children under the age of five succumb globally to pollution-caused diseases.