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 | Nov 11, 2019 | Climate Change, Information, Sustainability
A long-held scientific assumption has just been turned on its head. For many years, scientists have thought that as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase as a result of climate change, plants will reduce their water consumption and leave more fresh water...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Did you know that a whopping 380 million tons of plastic are created worldwide each year? Worse yet, as the plastics market continues to increase, many analysts are predicting that plastic production could quadruple by 2050. The trouble with all this plastic...
by Admin | Aug 23, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
New research from Montana State University shows that with wildfires in the west becoming inevitable, communities that rethink what it means to live with them rather than simply rebuilding will fare better in the long run. The paper, recently published in the journal...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Green Energy, Sustainability
Over the past 40 years, advances in adapting wind energy technology and improvements in predicting wind conditions have created significant growth in the use of wind turbines for electricity. A new report published in Applied Physics Reviews takes stock of where the...
by Admin | Jul 5, 2019 | Climate Change, Sustainability
If you remember your high school biology, you’ll recall that plants breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. Of course, they don’t breathe quite the way humans do. Botanists have known for more than 100 years that plant leaves have pores called stomata, and they...
