Amid High-Tech alternatives, a reckoning for Iceland’s glacier keepers
A 30-meter, Komelon-branded measuring tape, a pencil, and a yellow paper form are all Hallsteinn Haraldsson carries with him when he travels to the Snaefellsnes…
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The Three Meanings Of E=mc², Einstein’s Most Famous Equation
It’s so much more than mass-energy equivalence; it’s the key to unlocking the quantum Universe. For hundreds of years, there was an immutable law of…
This is how Big Oil will die
It’s 2025, and 800,000 tons of used high strength steel is coming up for auction. The steel made up the Keystone XL pipeline, finally completed…
Can the Great Lakes Become Fishable, Drinkable, and Swimmable Again?
A joint United States–Canada report maps out the way to clean up the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem As Mark Mattson waited to speak to Canada’s…
Bright Lights, Green City
How a handful of community organizers got the biggest city in America to take on the one of the most powerful industries on Earth. Some…
100% renewable electricity worldwide is a new cost-effective reality
A global power system fully based on renewable energy is no longer a long-term vision, but a tangible reality. Last year, Costa Rica has beaten…
Corridor of Power
For over a decade Pakistan’s growing economy has been held back by a chronic shortage of electricity; supply has often fallen short by over 20%…
The odd triangle
It used to be missiles; now it’s oil, but Cuba is still in crisis. Back in ’62 the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis triggered a 13-day…
Humberstone and Santa Laura
Two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile, in the Atacama Desert. Founded in 1872, the Saltpeter works and the towns constructed around them became obsolete fifty years later, after two…
Hywind and Dry
We are in Buchan Deep, where Scotland has given the green light to Hywind, a project that brought about the construction of the largest floating…
Radon smoke is rising
Warning: “Radon is all around us. You are now entering a radioactive area.”. It could be the sign at your front door. Would you stay…
The web of life and climate change dualism
Imagine an intricate and infinite web. This web represents the interrelationship among all life forms both with each other as well as the rest of…
How droughts have scarred Syria forever
What is the good, bad, and the ugly regarding climate change and Syria? The good is that the Syrian government has finally signed the 2016…