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“#Senate approves $2.8B plan to boost conservation, parks” In this May 18, 2020 photo, visitors watch as Old Faithful erupts on the day the park partially reopened after a two-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, at Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Lawmakers have reached bipartisan agreement on an election-year deal to double spending on a…
“#With storms in May, lawmaker wants a longer hurricane season” Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, right, gives a tour to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, of the Miami-Dade Emergency Operations Center, Monday, June 8, 2020, in Doral, Fla. Wolf, who also toured the National Hurricane Center, spoke during a news conference on the on…
“#COVID-19 makes air pollution a top concern worldwide: report” Worldwide, air pollution causes around seven million premature deaths every year, according to the UN At least two-thirds of people in countries home to a fifth of the world’s population support stricter laws and enforcement to tackle air pollution, the Clean Air Fund said Wednesday. Researchers…
“#Women commuting during rush hour are exposed to higher levels of pollutants” Alumni Nada Adibah and Gabriella Cuevas demonstrate the installation of air pollution monitors in a vehicle in a photo from 2019. As students, they worked with Dr. Jenna Krall on a multidisciplinary study looking at the effect of traffic pollution exposure for women….
“#Russia says has removed fuel from river hit by Arctic spill” The pollution spread after 21,000 tonnes of diesel leaked when a fuel reservoir collapsed on May 29 Russia has finished clearing fuel from the surface of a river hit by a massive diesel spill in the Arctic region, but the full clean-up could take…
“#Why we’ll still need waste in a circular economy” Every year, we buy 30 billion tonnes of stuff, from pizza boxes to family homes. We throw out or demolish 13 billion tonnes of it as waste—about 2 tonnes per person. A third of what we discard was bought the same year. The extraction, use and…
“#Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Large-scale reforestation projects such as New Zealand’s One Billion Trees programme are underway in many countries to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere. But there is ongoing debate about whether to prioritise native or non-native plants to fight climate…
“#20-year field experiment: Rotate corn for better soil health” Leveraging a 20-year field experiment, University of Illinois researchers found evidence that continuous corn crop rotations lead to poor soil health. Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois Soil microbes are living, working barometers of soil health. They are responsible for turning atmospheric nitrogen into forms…
“#How to manage water systems for long-term sustainability” Credit: Chinnapong, Shutterstock The concept of a circular economy (CE) promotes reparability, durability and recyclability, unlike the traditional linear economy that is based on the take-make-consume-dispose pattern involving the using up of resources. As such, CE can help lower the use of resources, decrease waste production and…
“#Study finds that proactive home buyouts provide financial benefits, reduce flood damage, and protect homeowners” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Damages from flooding cost hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Compounded by a changing climate, by 2080 the frequency of these major events is expected to increase by 20 times. A case study of the record-breaking…