Enlarge / A 1960s Southern California gas station being restored. (credit: FarukUlay | Getty Images) On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General Motors lab poured a new fuel blend into one of their test engines. Immediately, the engine began running more quietly and putting out more power. […]
Enlarge / Thought climate change was already complicated? Now scientists have to consider the influence of tiny bits of atmospheric plastic. (credit: Sanka Vidanagama | Getty Images) Like the ash spewed from a supervolcano, microplastics have infested the atmosphere and encircled the globe. These are bits of plastic less than 5 millimeters long, and they […]
Enlarge (credit: Aleksandr Potashev / iStock ) Gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers will soon be a thing of the past in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into legislation a bill that will ban the particular sale of small internal combustion engines predominately used in lawn and garden equipment, starting as soon as 2024. […]
Celebs need to be smarter about things like this! We know there are a million logistical issues to traveling while famous, but taking a private jet back and forth to a climate change event is not a great look! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are feeling the heat right now (pun intended!) as social media users […]
“Now it’s the time for business and other stakeholders to find a way to decarbonize what they do as quickly as possible, ” a leading scientist says after Monday’s IPCC climate report. Read More
Enlarge / Aboard the German research vessel Sonne off the coast of Chile, ready to take samples from eight kilometers deep in the Atacama Trench system. (credit: Anni Glud, SDU) Although pollution controls have significantly reduced the mercury content of coal-fired plant emissions, the latest Global Mercury Assessment still estimates that there’s been a 20 […]
Khloé Kardashian’s in hot water, and she doesn’t like the heat! After the KUWTK star called out her fans for pouring single-use plastic water bottles into gallon-sized jugs in a health-conscious trend, many followers were outraged that she, of all people, felt the need to “rant” about single-use anything. You know, considering the overzealous amount […]
Not such an environmentalist after all! On Monday, Khloé Kardashian made a lengthy Instagram Story dishing out what she thought was some top-notch advice to followers on how they can help save the Earth. But all she ended up doing in the end was insulting her fans, many of whom now see her as a […]
Enlarge (credit: Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine/Flickr) The US Environmental Protection Agency announced a rule Monday that would phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the potent greenhouse gases that are widely used as refrigerants. Though HFCs aren’t intentionally emitted in the regular use of refrigerators and air conditioners, they often leak out at various phases in an […]
Expand (credit: Getty Picture ) Someone residing across the Ganges River in India lately got a present which we may safely say no one on Earth had ever gotten before. In the beginning, it must have seemed just like a typical plastic jar floating down the lake, spare for the pole poking from the best, […]