Traveling, especially traveling worldwide, is an amazing way to widen your perspective on life. However, traveling can make it hard to remain as environmentally conscious as you usually are at home. That doesn’t have to mean you give up entirely, though. There are a lot of things you can do while traveling that are excellent ...
Researchers have developed an innovative way to convert waste plastics into ingredients for jet fuel and other valuable products, making it easier and more cost-effective to reuse plastics. The researchers were able to convert 90 percent of the waste plastics into jet fuel and other valuable hydrocarbon products within an hour at moderate temperatures and ...
Mastery of fire has given humans dominion over the natural world. A Yale-led study provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans significantly altering entire ecosystems using fire. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, combines archaeological evidence — dense clusters of stone artifacts dating as far back as 92,000 years ago — ...
When you ask yourself what trees are, what your relationship with them is, and how we impact each other, it is amazing to realize where the search for those answers may lead you. They are designed to endure. Maybe they have even learned how to do this. When you think about it, they can’t really ...
Waste fishing gear in the Ganges River poses a threat to wildlife including otters, turtles, and dolphins, new research shows. The study says entanglement in fishing gear could harm species, including the critically endangered three-striped roofed turtle and the endangered Ganges river dolphin. Surveys along the length of the river, from the mouth in Bangladesh to the Himalayas in ...
Of all the plastics we’ve ever produced, only 9 percent has been recycled. So what happened to all that plastic you’ve put in the recycling bin over the years? Hands up if you grew up thinking that recycling plastic waste is key to saving the environment. It turns out that for decades the recyclability of ...
Grazing exclusion using fences has been applied to rehabilitate degraded grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and elsewhere. However, there is a limited understanding of the effects of grazing exclusion on alpine ecosystem functions and services and its impacts on herders’ livelihoods. A research team led by Dr. SUN Jian from the Institute of Geographic ...
A new study has revealed that almost 13,000 tons of microfibers, equivalent to two rubbish trucks every day, are being released into European marine environments every year — but this could be reduced by as much as 30 percent if we made a small change to our laundry habits. The findings have been published in ...
In 2018, China banned the import of paper and plastic waste from the U.S. These items were being sent to China for recycling. The ban has had a significant impact on the debate as waste builds up in the United States. While some say that recycling is an expensive, inefficient activity and that all waste ...
There are major gaps in how food waste in tourism is understood and calculated, according to researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Southern California. The waste originating from hotels, restaurants, and events is recognized and can be estimated and calculated, but as the tourism industry is becoming more and more ...
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