Archive for July 2019
First all-digital nuclear reactor in U.S. goes online at Purdue
Scientists at Purdue University in the United States say they’ve installed the first all-digital nuclear reactor system in the country – a big upgrade for a research reactor first built in 1962, and a step forward for all nuclear plants
Plants could fight climate change by growing bigger roots
Plants and algae around the planet absorb some vast amounts of CO2 from the air each year, yet there’s a natural limit to how much they can do so as to reduce the amount of excess CO2 still in the
Snapchat, YouTube or porn: Our video is costing carbon
Online video viewing was responsible for carbon emissions equal to those of Spain last year, and it’s time to take seriously the impacts and become “digitally sober,” according to researchers at a Paris-based think tank on climate change. The new
Common farming practices are a risk to global food supplies
Even as more land is being used for agriculture, crop diversity has been on the decline.
India’s coal addiction harms the country and the planet
Even as India is suffering from climate change it is also contributing to it.
Many cities will have ‘unrecognizable’ climates by 2050
By mid-century some three-quarters of cities will have climates barely recognizable to their inhabitants today.