Category Archives: Earth

Amazon has reached its goal set earlier this year to completely get rid of plastic air pillows at its warehouses by the end of the year. “As of October 2024, we’ve removed all plastic air pillows from our delivery packaging used at our global fulfillme… Continue reading Amazon Ditches Plastic Air Pillows→

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: From dumping iron into the ocean to launching mirrors into space, proposals to cool the planet through ‘geoengineering’ tend to be controversial — and sometimes fantastical. A new idea isn’t any less… Continue reading Diamond Dust Could Cool the Planet At a Cost of Mere Trillions→

More than half the world’s food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems … Continue reading Global Water Crisis Leaves Half of World Food Production at Risk in Next 25 Years→

The University of Toronto is constructing a 14-story building using mass timber, one of the largest and most recent projects to employ this innovative building technology. “Mass timber is an appealing alternative to energy-intensive concrete and steel,… Continue reading Sustainable Building Effort Reaches New Heights With Wooden Skyscrapers→

The number of sites identified as potentially having been polluted with banned cancer-causing “forever chemicals” in England is on the rise, and the Environment Agency (EA) says it does not have the budget to deal with them. From a report: A former RAF… Continue reading Cost of Dealing With PFAS Problem Sites ‘Frightening’, Says Environment Agency→

The Earth’s natural carbon sinks — oceans, forests, and soils — are increasingly struggling to absorb human carbon emissions as global temperatures rise, raising concerns that achieving net-zero targets may become impossible. “In 2023, the hottest ye… Continue reading Trees and Land Absorbed Almost No CO2 Last Year→

Zambia has the largest man-made lake in the world, reports the Associated Press — but a severe drought has left the lake’s 128-meter-high (420-feet) dam wall “almost completely exposed”. This leaves Kariba dam without enough water to run most of … Continue reading Zambia Faces a Climate-Induced Energy Crisis→

Any breach of what climate scientists agree is the safer limit on global warming would result in “irreversible consequences” for the planet, said a major academic study published on Wednesday. From a eport: Even temporarily exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsiu… Continue reading Overshooting 1.5C Risks ‘Irreversible’ Climate Impact: Study→

An anonymous reader shares a report: Wikipedia’s “Timeline of the Far Future” is one of my favorite webpages from the internet’s pre-slop era. A Londoner named Nick Webb created it on the morning of December 22, 2010. “Certain events in the future of t… Continue reading How Long Will Life Exist on Earth?→