Tag: Environmental Issues
A 1,000-year drought is hitting the West: Could desalination be a...
The United States and many other parts of the world are reeling under the impacts of severe drought. One possible solution is the desalination...
Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared: draft UN report
A draft copy of the upcoming Working Group II (WG2) report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on the impacts of climate...
Study: Half of US cosmetics contain toxic chemicals
More than half the cosmetics sold in the United States and Canada likely contain high levels of a toxic industrial compound linked to serious...
‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics
Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products. The material is home compostable and can...
Deep, old water explains why Antarctic Ocean hasn’t warmed
Observed warming over the past 50 years (in degrees Celsius per decade) shows rapid warming in the Arctic, while the Southern Ocean around Antarctica...
