This year hasn’t been good for Patrick Star. Starfish from Mexico to Alaska have been melting mysteriously for over a year now. The illness called the "sea star wasting disease” has been spreading like wildfire across North America’s Pacific coast...
Toshiba, the Japanese tech giant, has a great solution to the pressing climate-change driven problem of food security. They converted an old factory into the most advanced farm in the world to grow lettuce.
The Yokosuka factory was once a...
For most people, it is more important that their toothpaste has whitening properties, or their shampoo gives volume or removes dandruff, than what is in the list of ingredients. I wonder, would this still be the case if they...
The world’s largest truck is a monster of a contraption. It’s 20.6 meters (60.6 feet) long, 8.16 meters (26.8 feet) high and 9.87 meters (32.4 feet) wide. Tipping the scales at 360MT, the BelAZ 75710 carries a 450MT payload,...
A state-funded report has just come to light showing how well the market for green jobs is doing in the state of Ohio, but why have Ohio State officials been keeping it “hidden” (• - see note) for over...
The world is running out of chocolate, as climate change is diminishing thousands of hectares of the precious cocoa crop. Farmers are increasingly giving up on cocoa cultivation, as it is getting harder and harder to sustain it profitable....
In a search for alternative means to generate energy, scientists have gone beyond what many of us can imagine. Often the new techniques happen to be far from feasible, or just border-line crazy. The latest such idea comes from...
There seem to be no end to the amount of ignorance being displayed by the general public when it comes to the real risks involved as climate change continues to worsen.
Take, for example, sea level rise, which climate change...
Filling up is a chore, so much so that gas stations with service attendants are a standard feature in my part of the world. Topping up an EV can be much more of a pain, Supercharger stations notwithstanding.
But then...
Scientists recently developed a molecule that can capture wayward fluorocarbons, known to be a class of very potent greenhouse gases (GHGs), like a sponge.
In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, Ognjen Miljanic and his team from the from...
