by Admin | May 22, 2020 | Environmental hazards, Information
In Japan, where Asian giant hornets are native pests, an average of 30-50 people a year die by them, mostly by having the misfortune to stumble, literally, into one of their massive buried hives. Native to temperate and tropical parts of East and Southern Asia, from...
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 | 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 | Sep 16, 2019 | Climate Change, Conservation
Researchers at the University of Southern California have made a discovery that may bring hope for the world’s corals. Thus far, things have looked pretty grim for corals. About half of the world’s corals have been lost due to warming seas that make their world...
