by Admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Environmental hazards
In the first months of 2020, it felt like there was a new disaster every week. And 2021 appears to be playing the same tune. In the last week of February, patches of tar began washing up on beaches along more than 100 miles of Israel’s coastline. Immediately, the sale...
by Admin | Mar 1, 2021 | Conservation, Sustainability
Yishan Wong has taken part in some of the largest disruptions the internet brought to daily living. In the early 2000s, he was a senior engineering manager at PayPal while the company made itself into the bank of the internet. In 2005, he joined a fast-growing new...
by Admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
On the morning of Sunday, February 7, a wall of water and mud slammed its way down the valley of India’s Dhauliganga River. Nothing stopped it—not houses, ridges, or dams. As of February 12, 2021, more than 200 people were still listed as missing, 38 had been...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2021 | Environmental hazards
Our lungs are amazing things. Impossibly delicate structures of tissue capable of carrying both air and blood, allowing vapor exchange between the two. In structure, they resemble the branches of an upside-down tree, with the uncountable alveoli, the points of...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2021 | Conservation
New species get found every day, but usually they’re insects, or some variety of LBB (Little Brown Bird), a fern or—if you’re very, very lucky—a previously unknown shrew. But just recently, a few incredibly lucky scientists got to announce the discovery of a whole new...
