Category: Environment
Plastic is Climate Change in a Bottle
Plastic Pollution and Climate Change Have Common Culprits – and Similar Solutions Nearly 200 countries…
The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
Mark Blacklock at Literary Review: Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the…
Caponigro’s Resonance Series (Pics)
The Environmental Fine Art Landscape Photographer John Paul Caponigro continues to revisit an ongoing series…
How the Search For Aliens Went From Laughable to Scientific
The giggle factor is finally history. Adam Frank at Aeon: After decades on the cultural…
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness
There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness,…
Climate Change Requires Private Sector Financial Firepower
And these efforts cannot be simply country-based. They must be geared to achieve global goals…
The Crucial Building Blocks of Life on Earth Form More Easily in Outer Space
by Christian Schroeder at Singularity Hub: The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic,…
Decarbonization is the Most Critical Response to Climate Change–But is it Enough?
McKinsey research shows that carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, could play a vital role in…
Exploding Stars Are Rare—but if One Was Close Enough, It Could Threaten Life on Earth
Johannes Kepler observed the last supernova in the Milky Way in 1604, so in a…
Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life
Carl Zimmer in Quanta: Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists…
Climate Politics & Capitalism: Is the World Enough?
Will Glovinsky at Public Books: It was 1968, and the “battle to feed all of…