After legal battles with an environmental group AT&T has agreed to remove lead-covered cables from Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada. Lead-covered underwater cables are a cause of environmental problems as they degrade over time, contaminating the nearby environments with lead. As reported by CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/lake-tahoe-toxic-lead-cable-att-lawsuit-settlement/ As reported by [...]
Take a minute and appreciate some of the beauty of the natural world around us, the world we are hoping to protect, with a compilation of some of the best mangrove pictures from this year by the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2024/jul/26/roots-and-refuge-the-years-best-mangrove-images-in-pictures
In a time where wars rage across the world from Europe to the Middle East and geopolitical tensions are climbing, it is worth remembering how these increasingly destructive conflicts don't just inflict horrible costs on humanity and civilization, but they also damage the world and nature around us. Here [...]
A summary of some key points of the COP 28 summit from Al-Jazeera, to understand what the worlds leading nations have discussed about climate-change this year: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/13/cop28-dubai-is-over-four-key-highlights-from-the-un-climate-summit
The General-Science Journal Nature's takeaways both positive and negative from the COP 28 summit: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04025-y
A general overview of the COP28 UN summit on climate change by the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67143989
The Salata Institute of Harvard on the political and supply constraints that effect the sustainable movement in America: https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/inside-the-clean-energy-transition-the-future-is-very-bright-and-every-day-is-a-freaking-crisis/
Here is a list of some interesting sustainable alternatives that the world could use to help transition to becoming more sustainable from Interesting Engineering: https://interestingengineering.com/lists/21-sustainability-listss-that-might-just-change-the-world
A floating, solar-powered device that can turn contaminated water or seawater into clean hydrogen fuel and purified water, anywhere in the world, has been developed by researchers. The device, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, could be useful in resource-limited or off-grid environments, since it works [...]