Tag: global warming
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Study Highlights the Importance of Biodiversity in Farming
As the global population continues growing, experts have been studying how to maintain high crop yields while not sacrificing biodiversity. The world faces mounting challenges due to climate change, which will inevitably affect the food supply. However, by simply working with nature instead of against it, we could overcome these problems. In a new study,…
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Coffee Pulp Aids Reforestation Efforts, According to Science
A recent study found that coffee pulp, a waste product of coffee production, can promote reforestation efforts on post-agricultural land. The British Ecological Society journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence published these findings. Researchers from ETH-Zurich and the University of Hawai`i took part in the study. First, they spread 30 dump truck loads of coffee pulp…
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Instagrammers Tell Stories of People Who Helped Others in Extreme Weather
Extreme weather events have been ramping up in frequency and severity due to climate change. The unstable weather caused by warming temperatures leaves many communities reeling from one disaster after another. While we can’t predict when the next storm will strike, we can count on each other to make it through. After hurricanes, floods, tornadoes,…
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Australians Reveal How They Can Build Roadways Out of Recycled Waste
In Australia, construction companies have begun building roads from recycled waste, adding to the country’s arsenal of climate adaptation tools. It leads the way in sustainability, generating more solar power than anywhere globally. Currently, Australia produces eight times the global average of rooftop solar per person. Now, its citizens have something else to feel proud…
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How Solar Energy Helps to Create Self-sustaining Cities
Researchers advise that solar energy could lead to self-sustaining cities popping up around the globe. New models revealed that buildings in the city of Melbourne could provide 74% of their electricity through solar technology. This technology would apply to individual residences, neighborhoods, and even the entire city. If workers install them in roofs, walls, and…
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Melting Ice in Greenland Raises Alarms for Flooding
New research by the University of Leeds found that Greenland’s rapidly melting ice raises global flood risks. In the past forty years, the world’s ice sheets have disappeared at alarming rates due to climate change. The increasing intensity and frequency of ice melting events raise sea level and flood concerns worldwide. Scientists have documented the…