by Admin | Mar 20, 2020 | Conservation, Sustainability
Since the early 1990s, businesses that have been levied fines for irresponsible polluting have been able to reduce their penalties by supporting Special Environmental Projects (SEPs), clean-world projects unrelated to their environmental infractions. Cleaning streams,...
by Admin | Mar 13, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Information
In January of 2020, the White House announced massive changes to an important suite of laws that protect sensitive environments. The National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, are the regulations which require major infrastructure projects to undergo environmental...
by Admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Environmental hazards
A new study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and other European institutions, published in the end of February 2020, indicates that humans, on average, are losing three years of life expectancy due to outdoor air pollution. With the world as...
by Admin | Feb 28, 2020 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
In early 2017, the Svalbard seed vault made news when a troublesome flood threatened its irreplaceable stash of seeds. Buried in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean and well above the Arctic Circle, the cold temperatures there are...
by Admin | Feb 7, 2020 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
A new study that used artificial intelligence to study the impact of rising sea levels has revealed we could become a nation of climate refugees. The study, published in January in the journal PLOS ONE, is the first to use machine learning to project migration...
