by Edd Gent in Singularity Hub: Supporting any future settlement on the moon would require considerable amounts of energy. Russia and China think a nuclear power plant is the best option, and they have plans to build one by the mid-2030s… These ambitious plans face a major challenge though—how to power all this equipment. TheContinue reading “Power Plant on the Moon By Mid-2030s”
Category Archives: Environment
How Much Life Has Ever Existed on Earth, and How Much Ever Will?
Peter Crockford in Singularity Hub: All organisms are made of living cells. While it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the first cells came to exist, geologists’ best estimates suggest at least as early as 3.8 billion years ago. But how much life has inhabited this planet since the first cell on Earth? And how much lifeContinue reading “How Much Life Has Ever Existed on Earth, and How Much Ever Will?”
How You Can Easily Delay Climate Change Today: SO2 Injection
Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories: In We Can Already Stop Climate Change If We Want To, I explained that we have a path to solve climate change (renewables, nuclear, batteries, olivine weathering), but it will take at least a few decades to get there. In the meantime, CO2 emissions will keep growing, there’s nothing we can doContinue reading “How You Can Easily Delay Climate Change Today: SO2 Injection”
All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
The United States has the most expensive transportation infrastructure in the world and that’s because we refuse to learn from experts, other countries, and our own history –Alon Levy Alon Levy is a Fellow in the Transportation and Land Use program of the NYU Marron Institute. Alon Levy interviewed at Asterisk: Asterisk: The overarching question inContinue reading “All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train”
What’s a Group of Ravens Called?
These super-smart birds recognize other friendly birds, as well as human faces. By the way, the only bird that dares to peck an eagle is the raven. How an eagle handles a raven? Curated by Irshad Salim, Karachi. Email: [email protected]
Winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024
The winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 competition were announced in an award ceremony in Mayfair, London. Participants submitted their pics in 13 categories, including Macro, Wide Angle, Behavior and Wreck photography, as well as 4 categories for photos taken specifically in British waters. The contest celebrates photography beneath the surface ofContinue reading “Winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024”
Ant Geopolitics
Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own John Witfield at Aeon Magazine: It is a familiar story: a small group of animals living in a wooded grassland begin, against all odds, to populate Earth. At first, they occupy a specific ecological placeContinue reading “Ant Geopolitics”
The Atlantic Ocean is Headed for a Tipping Point
Once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows René van Westen, Henk A. Dijkstra, and Michael Kliphuis in The Conversation: Instruments deployed in the ocean starting in 2004 show that the Atlantic Ocean circulation has observably slowed over the past two decades, possibly to its weakest state in almost a millennium.Continue reading “The Atlantic Ocean is Headed for a Tipping Point”
Politics in a Burning World: Beyond Mere Survival
Rithika Ramamurthy and Ajay Singh Chaudhary in Non-Profit Quarterly: “Beyond Mere Survival”: A Conversation with Ajay Singh Chaudhary” Rithika Ramamurthy: I want to talk about the central concept of your book, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World. That is: exhaustion. Can you tell us how the term works across the material, psychological,Continue reading “Politics in a Burning World: Beyond Mere Survival”