Therefore, you have stolen From A National Park and Now Feel Bad. Here is What Not to Do Imagine yourself walking through Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park (PFNP). As you scan the floor, you see a lovely piece of petrified wood that would…
Emerging Synthetic Antioxidants are Emitted by E-waste Recycling Every year, millions of electronic items such as televisions, laptops, and mobile phones are abandoned in Australia. In reality, e-waste is the most rapidly expanding…
Is Santa’s Sleigh Zero Carbon the Answer Lies in Reindeer Poo Santa’s sleigh is famously hauled by eight reindeer, nine if you count the glowing Rudolf helps the weather is bad. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Cupid,…
Are Real or Fake Christmas Trees Better For the Environment While getting ready to deck the halls and set up the Christmas tree this year, you may have wondered if cutting down a natural tree…
The Pollution Produced by Consumption in the World’s Largest Economies causes Half of all Premature Deaths PM2.5 particles are responsible for the haze that obscures a blue sky or a lovely skyline. PM2.5 refers to particulate matter that is smaller than…
Try Making a Brocken Specter on Your Next Walk, They’re Seriously Cool The Brocken specter, or Spectre of the Brocken, is the term given to a clever optical illusion that was originally noticed on Germany’s Brocken peak,…
Tornadoes and Climate Change What a Warming World Means for Deadly Twisters and the Type of Storms That Spawn Them The deadly tornado outbreak that ripped through communities from Arkansas to Illinois on the night of Dec. 10-11, 2021, was so unusual in terms of…
Microbes Are Evolving To Eat Plastic All around the World Scientists have discovered that bacteria all across the world have developed a liking for plastic, which is devastating evidence of the planet’s pollution crisis. Scientists…
The Source of a Significant Increase in Unregulated Ozone-Depleting Substance Emissions has been Identified According to a new study led by the University of Bristol and Peking University, emissions of the ozone-depleting chemical dichloromethane from China have more than…
Marine Environments are impacted by Disrupting the Flow of Wood from Rivers to Oceans Ellen Wohl has always been enthralled by what takes place beneath the waves. She investigates the relationships between rivers and water, sediment and wood flow,…
In the Fight against Water Pollution, a New Polymer Detection Method Will Turn the Peptide Sensor Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have created a peptide sensor to detect water-soluble polymers in wastewater, a serious pollutant on par with microplastics. The…
Black Box Set to Record Earth’s Environmental Collapse for Any Future Survivors Flight recorders, sometimes known as “black boxes,” have made flying much safer by recording what went wrong in air-crash tragedies and offering lessons on what…