India’s third way
From death came life. Cremation, a traditional ceremony for the 8.5 million Hindus dying each year in India, is emotionally and environmentally fraught. An estimated…
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The Allam Cycle fires up
Last April the town of Laporte, Texas, was the setting for what could prove to be a turning point in the losing battle against carbon…
Environmentalism 4.0
Global leaders at the latest World Economic Forum 2018 Meeting in Davos were talking about “the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, the drastic changes that technology, Artificial…
The true carbon footprint of photovoltaic energy
The sun is an inexhaustible energy resource to generate electricity apparently without toxic pollutants or effects on global warming. Certainly, solar energy systems (photovoltaics, solar…
Pleistocene Park: protecting the future by returning to the past
It is a well-known fact that burning fossil fuels causes the buildup of greenhouse gases which leads to global warming. This results in melting permafrost…
Cockatoo Island
Located in Sydney Harbour, Australia, Cockatoo Island, between 1839 and 1869, operated as a convict penal establishment, for convicts who had re-offended in the colonies….
From Australia to El Salvador to Vietnam, the environment is finally getting its day in court
When the improper disposal of wastewater from the construction site of a joint shopping center and apartment complex threatened to contaminate hundreds of residents’ water…
These are the world’s most innovative cities, and here’s why
Innovation is seen as a key ingredient for successful cities in the 21st century economy, as new technologies constantly emerge to disrupt the status quo….
Antarctica has lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years
Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2017, according to a new analysis of satellite observations. In vulnerable West Antarctica, the annual…
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…
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…