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Tag: Climate Crisis
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Via nytimes.com
Stories of Climate Change’s Effects on Every Country
The New York Times Opinion section recently published “Postcards From a World on Fire,” a collection of sounds, photos, videos and vignettes that capture climate change’s effects on different countries around the …
Via deezen.com
The European Union Will Establish New Energy Standards
New draft regulations by the European Union aim to set a minimum energy performance standard for existing buildings by 2027, and require all new and forthcoming structures to be zero-emission by 2030. …
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California’s Bristlecones are the Oldest Recorded Trees in the World
Located in California’s Inyo National Forest, the most ancient tree on record—a bristlecone pine named ‘Methuselah’—is over 4,800 years old. Dendrochronologists (researchers who study the science of dating tree rings) discovered bristlecones …
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Building an Army of Oysters Around NYC To Mitigate Floods + Erosion
Before commercial harvesting, oyster reefs used to compose more than 220,000 acres of New York’s coastline, acting as a natural flood-mitigation system in addition to increasing marine biodiversity. With these reefs’ destruction, …
“Ambivalent Sunrise” Print
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Juxtaposing beauty and destruction, the realistic and the uncanny, artist Jessica Bellamy crafts portraits inspired by her Southern California roots. In “Ambivalent Sunrise,” the artist highlights a burning palm tree amidst a …
Via dazeddigital.com
Nightclub To Convert Dancers’ Body Heat Into Renewable Energy
Glasgow’s SWG3—a nightclub meets arts and performance space—has launched an initiative with geothermal energy consultancy TownRock Energy wherein the latter’s technology converts heat generated by dancers’ bodies at SWG3 into renewable energy. The …
Via thisismold.com
Insect-Based Pet Food Could Help Curb Climate Change
The way we eat undoubtedly needs to be transformed in order to curb climate change, but one area of the food system that’s often overlooked pertains to the “carbon pawprint”—aka pet food. …
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