by Admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Articles, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Agriculture and ecology form a tenuous balancing act. We need agriculture to grow food, but we also need to maintain ecosystems and not let farming ruin them. One significant problem is soil runoff near the beginning of the growing season. In the United States, for...
by Admin | Jul 12, 2016 | Articles, Conservation, Environmental hazards
There are a lot of scientists working on ways to reduce humanity’s carbon emissions, and there are several systems in place to do exactly that. Carbon capture refers to removing CO2 from industrial waste, and there re a number of systems already set up to do that....
by Admin | Jul 7, 2016 | Articles, Green Energy, Sustainability
It’s a fact of life that people need electricity, but generating it is often harmful to the environment. Moving forward, we need to find more ways to generate power that have less of an impact on the world around us. That’s where hydropower comes in. One form of green...
by Admin | Jul 5, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Remember the hole in the ozone layer? It was discovered back in the 1980s, caused by Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in all kinds of consumer products. Back in 1987, a number of governments ratified the Montreal Protocol in order to help combat the problem. Since then,...
by Admin | Jun 30, 2016 | Articles, Green Energy
The United States, Mexico, and Canada have signed a continent-spanning agreement to increase production of emissions-free electricity, improving the number to 50% across the three nations. Currently, about 37% of the continent’s electricity is generated with...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Thanks to the longstanding tradition in the United Kingdom of people observing and recording natural events like flowering, bird migration, or nesting habits, researchers have been able to determine that changing weather patterns are impacting the “calendars” that...
