Archive for 2019
Climate change caused mass death among Alaskan puffins
In 2016 the bodies of several thousand tufted puffins washed up on the beaches of Saint Paul Island in Alaska.
Land, air and sea: Canada funds clean-energy transport R&D
Canadians are getting serious about clean transportation, and the government has announced the first 10 awards in a four-year program that will see $2.4 million committed to developing emissions-free solutions for aviation, rail and marine transport. While much of the
For real sustainability, we may need to look beyond GDP
The idea that gross domestic product growth is an unqualified good has come under fire.
Old mattresses in refugee camp reveal new way to grow food
Before you think there’s already too much polyurethane foam in the world, check out what scientists are doing at the new Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield in the UK. The university says it is growing salad greens
China is eyeing nuclear to reduce its vast carbon footprint
"China will very likely become the largest nuclear power supplier in the next decade," a Chinese expert says,
We’ll ‘need a moral compass’ for tackling climate change
The new compass should not be a static set of rules but a dynamic and reflexively evolving framework.