by Beth Holmes | Jan 24, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Greenland has effectively banned all future exploration for oil or gas in their territories, putting climate concerns above investments. In April 2021, Greenland elected their Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party to lead their parliament, ousting the incumbent Siumut party....
by Beth Holmes | Jan 10, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Patagonia is the end of the world, if anyplace is, and it’s burning. Perched at the very southernmost tip of South America, the mountainous, fjord-crossed region is an inhabited wilderness. Almost 2 million people live there, on either side of the border between...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 13, 2021 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
Heat is expensive, is the not particularly surprising conclusion of a recent study in Phoenix, Arizona by the Nature Conservancy. The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit environmental organization which funds and maintains nature preserves and studies better ways to...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 6, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Resources
Fungi may be a large key to understanding what can be done about the climate change we are already facing, according to researchers working on a massive project to map the fungal networks of the world. When most of us hear fungus or fungi, we think of mushrooms. But...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 29, 2021 | Business, Climate Change, Conservation, Green Energy
Wastewater, rather than air pollution, may be the wedge that finally pushes coal out of its place as the U.S.’s power source. Coal-burning plants in the United States had an October deadline to get better at filtering their wastewater. A new wastewater rule,...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 15, 2021 | Business, Climate Change, Green Energy
Direct air capture is one of the newest tools in the fight against climate change, and it’s growing in popularity. According to research agencies like the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we’re at a point where reducing emissions...
