Environment

EU Says It Will Recycle 70% Of Electric Car Batteries- Here's Why That's Actually Worse For The Environment

Electric cars are popular, thanks to government mandates and subsidies, but they have a problem in the distance; massive amounts of battery waste. The EU, for example, wants to have 30 million electric cars by 2030 and while politicians can ignore the foss ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 5 2021 - 12:15pm

Conservationists Move Species To Create Natural 'Fixes' To Problems, And Sometimes Create Pandemics

Using their own proprietary consultant as the sole source for their "evaluation", US Fish and Wildlife Service once tried to extort up to $30 million from a private landowner in Louisiana, by stating they needed to created a habitat for an " ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 13 2021 - 12:08pm

During Drought, Trees May Be Dying Before We Know It

Just like people, trees can die of thirst, especially during a drought, but a recent field study found that a rapid collapse in the hydraulic system of trees is happening more rapidly than previously thought. The heatwave of summer 2018 was exceptional and ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2021 - 1:50pm

The Links Between Hay Fever And Exposure To Prenatal Pollutants

Allergies are nothing new for many people. They grow up suffering the effects of hay fever from season to season. A recent study in the journal Thorax has explored a link between hay fever and being exposed to prenatal pollutants. The findings are pretty ...

Blog Post - Mark Pierce - May 13 2021 - 10:51am

More Efficient Solar Panels On The Horizon

Horizon We've all seen how helpful solar panels are in renewable energy. From a consumer perspective, solar power is still an up-and-coming challenger to the existing fossil fuel infrastructure that most power generation systems take advantage of. Th ...

Article - Mark Pierce - May 13 2021 - 10:52am

Gauging The Environmental Impact Of NFTs

Artwork is one of the newest purchasable commodities on the crypto market, thanks to a new technology known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NPR informs us that an NFT is a crypto token that isn't interchangeable but is tied to a specific commodity. The ...

Article - Mark Pierce - May 13 2021 - 10:53am

How Climate Change Could Push The American West Into A Mega Drought

Climate change is one of the most pressing concerns our civilization has. Time Magazine paints a grim picture of what the role is likely to look like in less than thirty years if we don't address the issue. However, it's not as simple as changin ...

Blog Post - Mark Pierce - Jun 6 2021 - 9:50pm

Correlation Between Underground Carbon Stores And Above-Ground Plant Biomass

One of the things that scientists rely on to accurately predict climate change is the amount of carbon sequestered underground. Carbon dioxide in the air leads to increased global warming, exacerbating climate change. When plants have a lot of access to c ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Jun 7 2021 - 11:11pm

Peace Is Bad For The Environment

In 2016, after over a half century of fighting, the communist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) gave up. The revolutionaries had hidden in the Andes-Amazon region and the occupied rainforest remained under-developed for obvious violent re ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 10 2021 - 4:39pm

How To Fix Our Nitrogen Emergency

Do we have a nitrogen emergency? Most people aren't aware of the role nitrogen plays in our atmosphere. According to NASA, Nitrogen makes up about 78% of our atmosphere. Despite being so prevalent, we give it relatively little thought. We've spe ...

Blog Post - Mark Pierce - Jul 21 2021 - 11:37am