Archive for April 2021
A newly rediscovered coffee plant could save our favorite cuppas from climate change
It will grow and crop under much warmer conditions than Arabica coffee and tastes just as fine.
Stopping food waste from the grocery store to the garbage bin
Many people don’t make the connection between food waste and the key environmental challenges facing the world.
A new solar-powered evaporator could soon bring freshwater to millions of needy people
One in five people around the world lack regular access to freshwater, which makes up just 3% of the world’s water sources. Most of the 1.5 billion or so people who need to go without freshwater, however, live in arid
Key African American heritage trail threatened by rising seas
Climate change is forcing archaeologists to save as much of Harriet Tubman's legacy as possible before it is claimed by the sea.
Size alone ‘did not cause ancient megafauna to go extinct’
"We found no clear relationship between a species' inherent vulnerability to extinction and the timing of its extinction."
Airborne microplastics are travelling far and wide around the planet
"What humans have been doing for decades now is what I call a ‘plastification’ of the landscape and oceans."