AvatarM AvatarAvatarVenice's Controversial Inflatable Floodgates Save City for the Second TimeSmithsonian Magazine - Rasha AridiOn October 3, Venice’s new barrier system protected the city for the first time from high tides and severe flooding by blocking the water from …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarBig Oil is literally cooling the Earth so it can keep destroying itverified_publisherMic - AJ DellingerIn the last half-decade, Alaska has warmed faster than any other state in the country. That spells trouble for a lot of people, including those who …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarHydrogen fuel could revolutionize airlines. Here's how that could lookverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Samantha MasunagaEnvironmentally conscious travelers are in a quandary. Global airline travel has grown over the decades, and with it, so have the industry’s carbon emissions. Not everyone has the time to use more eco-friendly travel methods, like Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s famous two-week voyage last …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarNew research shows the Atlantic Ocean just had its hottest decade in 3000 yearsverified_publisherWorld Economic Forum - Dan RobitzskiHot pot This past decade has been the Atlantic Ocean’s warmest in nearly three full millennia. Oceanic temperatures tend to rise and fall in a cyclical …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarAdaptive traffic lights trial aims to cut fuel consumption by 20%verified_publisherTNW - Cities TodayThis article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarWhat's going on in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula?verified_publishereuronews green - By Marthe de FerrerKamchatka residents have been documenting this unfolding environmental catastrophe in real-time on social media. An environmental disaster of epic …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarThe frightening implications of California's first million-acre fireverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Hayley Smith, Rong-Gong Lin IIIt was mid-August and California was experiencing yet another bout of extreme weather. In Death Valley, the thermometer at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center displayed one of the hottest — if not the hottest — temperatures ever recorded on Earth: 130 degrees. Up in Northern California, an unusually …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarAlmost All Seafloor Life in Part of Russia's Kamchatka Region Wiped Out in 'Environmental Disaster'Newsweek - Brendan ColeThe carcasses of sea creatures have washed up on the beaches of Kamchatka in eastern Russia, amid an unexpected mass death of marine animals that has …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarOutright bans can sometimes be a good way to fight climate changeverified_publisherThe EconomistWHEN SET against the grave threat posed by climate change, the green policies favoured by economists can seem convoluted. Carbon prices, beloved of …
AvatarM FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1.8 Billion Tons More Greenhouse Gases Will Be Released, Thanks to Trumpecowatch.com - By Karen CharmanWhen President Donald Trump visited California on September 14 and dismissed the state Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot’s plea to …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarAround 40% of the world’s plant species are threatened with extinctionverified_publisherCNNLondon CNN — Some 40% of the world’s species of plants are threatened with extinction, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew says in a new report. Previous research in 2016 showed that 20% of plant species were under threat, but the “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2020” report, published Wednesday, …
AvatarM AvatarAvatarThe architect who wants to build cities with a million treesverified_publishereuronews green - By LivingTwo of his best-known works are the Vertical Forest Towers in Italy and the Liuzhou Forest City in China. Italian architect Stefano Boeri has launched …